Currently writing open source code and helping partner developers as an Integration Engineer at Login.gov. Author of Foot in the Door: My Self Taught Journey Becoming a Software Engineer
This phenomenon is why I avoid ever asking questions on Stack Overflow.. I have found it to be very toxic with people attacking the person asking questions and their intelligence. My strategy has been to just avoid those people as much as possible
I agree. And also i've seen so many good discussions becoming toxic just because everybody was intentionally trying to impose their beliefs on others, disrespecting people who was just trying to ask questions. Very sad.
Me in a remote meeting two days ago, one guy explaining to me what an exception is. Wtf I can't even believe today that he talked my team and me that way. Even with everything I am very proud of our behavior, we kept calm and focused on the technical problems that thrown the meeting in first place.
You should give chance sometime. Not every person is same , Positive answering is also rewarded well in Stackoverflow , sometime developers are in stack not only to help other dev's but also to enhance their problem solving skills.
I have been wrestling with bad code and started to wonder if the toxicity of our business has a lot to do with code that has lots of technical debt. Lot of us are working with code that acts like abusive partner. You don't understand why it behaves like it behaves. Your life is like walking on eggshells because it might explode for tiniest of reasons. It is uncommunicative and cannot be reasoned with. That is bound to have an effect on you that you then take on other people. If you spend lot of time fighting with code, no wonder all your conversations turn into arguments.
Currently writing open source code and helping partner developers as an Integration Engineer at Login.gov. Author of Foot in the Door: My Self Taught Journey Becoming a Software Engineer
Yeah when I have worked in companies that have terrible code I get a lot more frustrated, but I also do not take it out on random strangers on the internet. I guess I can see how dealing with bad code can make a developer feel insecure so they go online to pick on other peoples code in order to make themselves feel like they still "got skills." Still I think its more of an ego problem than anything else.
This phenomenon is why I avoid ever asking questions on Stack Overflow.. I have found it to be very toxic with people attacking the person asking questions and their intelligence. My strategy has been to just avoid those people as much as possible
I agree. And also i've seen so many good discussions becoming toxic just because everybody was intentionally trying to impose their beliefs on others, disrespecting people who was just trying to ask questions. Very sad.
Me in a remote meeting two days ago, one guy explaining to me what an exception is. Wtf I can't even believe today that he talked my team and me that way. Even with everything I am very proud of our behavior, we kept calm and focused on the technical problems that thrown the meeting in first place.
You should give chance sometime. Not every person is same , Positive answering is also rewarded well in Stackoverflow , sometime developers are in stack not only to help other dev's but also to enhance their problem solving skills.
Removed account on SO because of those people. I even avoid reading as answers on it when I Google stuff.
I have been wrestling with bad code and started to wonder if the toxicity of our business has a lot to do with code that has lots of technical debt. Lot of us are working with code that acts like abusive partner. You don't understand why it behaves like it behaves. Your life is like walking on eggshells because it might explode for tiniest of reasons. It is uncommunicative and cannot be reasoned with. That is bound to have an effect on you that you then take on other people. If you spend lot of time fighting with code, no wonder all your conversations turn into arguments.
Yeah when I have worked in companies that have terrible code I get a lot more frustrated, but I also do not take it out on random strangers on the internet. I guess I can see how dealing with bad code can make a developer feel insecure so they go online to pick on other peoples code in order to make themselves feel like they still "got skills." Still I think its more of an ego problem than anything else.
Agree for Stackoverflow :)