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Don’t You Know Who I Am?
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Tbf, the original photo was already discounting her abilities. Saying "can program code" for a lead SWE is saying like "can do calculus" for a physicist.
In their defense, maybe the post was written by some journalist with no technical background at all and doesn't know the difference.
Journalists are expected to do better. Otherwise, just hire anyone because even someone without any formal education could do better
When journalists were better paid, they did. Now most are stuck in race to the bottom content mills churning out as many posts as possible.
but haven't you heard that glorbo is coming to world of warcraft?
Very much so. Many non-technical people are still very much in awe when someone drops names of programming languages. And it kinda makes sense. If they have no idea, they naturally equate it to spoken languages. And if someone goes like "I speak these 7 languages", most people would be mightily impressed.
But if you know a few programming languages, adding another similar one might be a matter of hours.
And that list of languages in the article is pretty standard for a BS in CS: a bunch of standard, common languages and one assembly language.
Likely they covered MIPS assembly at university. MIPS is a comparatively simple architecture and thus is used a lot in CS courses.
The thing here is, if they really wanted to show off that she's got a good carreer and doing something remarkable, they could have just done what she did in her comment. List her current position and maybe her education.
I'd not be very happy if someone were to present my skills and achivements as "Can use these programming languages".
Also, once you're moderately good at programming, language doesn't matter much. You can pick up a new high level language relatively easily if needed. Low level languages might be harder for some people though, because it takes a fairly different mindset. Personally, I love low level programming, though it's not very time efficient to write.
Yeah, once you've got a few languages under your belt, it's all about concepts. If you end up learning a new language that follows completely different paradigms, you are back to square one. But most of the time you can go like "Ah, so concept X of the new language works similar to concept Y of that language I already know."