Max Roser's medriscoll.com blog, written by Mike Driscoll, covers data engineering, data science, and the Silicon Valley tech scene.
HN commenters mostly cite its 'guild of Silicon Valley' post when discussing hardcore engineers, the neckbeard trope, and Twitter's staffing.
Huh, your comment makes me wonder if I should look for contract work doing C++ development. I haven't done it seriously since the last millennium, and basically I've learned to program since then [0], but I know all the stuff you're talking about cold. (Except mutable, which took me a few seconds to remember, and then I looked it up to be sure.)
It's just that I feel like higher-level languages like Ruby, Python, or JS are so much more productive for most things, most of the time, despite things like Rachelbythebay's interesting set of posts about hacking together stuff in C++ [1].
But, aside from things like that, I guess there are some domains where C++ is a viable option and Lua or whatever still isn't. And it sounds to me like the average quality of C++ has gone up since I was doing it, to the point that most people have read Alexandrescu and never call delete explicitly, so it might not be quite so painful?
Should I be taking advantage of being one of the Fat Guys Who Know C++? [2]
[0]: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2007-March/000849.html
[1]: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/14/blort/
[2]: http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-valley
If George Hotz joins Twitter, as he recently offered [1], you may be right.
I think people may be underestimating Elon's ability to bring in folks from the "secret guild of silicon valley" [2] to help him in this task. Of course, some of the Twitter employees who left are probably already part of it, but George coming on, even temporarily, might help bring in replacements.
[1]:https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1593391466981691392
[2]:https://medriscoll.com/2011/08/19/the-guild-of-silicon-valley/
Fair point, but given the trope I'm looking to invoke ( http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-valley ), I'm okay with the baggage.
Is there a female version of neckbeard? Or a gender-neutral word with the same connotations?
I fear the obvious wordplay is offensive for the wrong reasons: neckbroad?
Relevant article from a few years ago: http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-valley
That blog was also the reason that someone started this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/neckbeardhacker
I'm reminded of a blogpost from 2012: http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-valley