> That sort of arrogance is an important signal to me that I should limit my exposure to the people displaying it.
Different strokes for different folks and not everyone is capable of working together. Comically, people like you would find your comment also arrogant and stay away from both of us.
For what it’s worth, I work on empathy quite a bit and my filter is based on the idea that it saves both me and the other party pain. I don’t want to work in a team where developers are tolerated giving up on super basic technologies like git (what else isn’t tolerated “oh, tcp/ip is just too complex for developers, I give up”) and they probably don’t want me to work with them.
I think one of the best things about technology is that people have great capability to solve problems. Giving up is a bad characteristic. Asking for help is important. Having teams of various skill sets is important. But giving up on basic things instead of getting help and figuring it out is bad as a permanent state for a team.
Different strokes for different folks and not everyone is capable of working together. Comically, people like you would find your comment also arrogant and stay away from both of us.
For what it’s worth, I work on empathy quite a bit and my filter is based on the idea that it saves both me and the other party pain. I don’t want to work in a team where developers are tolerated giving up on super basic technologies like git (what else isn’t tolerated “oh, tcp/ip is just too complex for developers, I give up”) and they probably don’t want me to work with them.
I think one of the best things about technology is that people have great capability to solve problems. Giving up is a bad characteristic. Asking for help is important. Having teams of various skill sets is important. But giving up on basic things instead of getting help and figuring it out is bad as a permanent state for a team.