In praise of "normal" engineers
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In Praise of “Normal” Engineers
This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engi…charity.wtf
Skullgrid
in reply to nebula42 • • •Fuck gender and fuck german for letting "the" get THIS fucking out of control.
I studied this fucker for 5 years in secondary school, got a B , but fuck it.
I'm learning/speaking Spanish now, it's still got gender and el/la/al but it's not this bad.
My first language of Turkish doesn't even have "the" for fucks sake.
Laser
in reply to Skullgrid • • •Spanish is a rather easy language
German on the other hand not so much. On the other hand, it's usually very precise and information-dense, which is reflected in how fast it rather slow it's spoken, especially compared to Spanish.
🐝bownage [they/he]
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