I thought it was a superb and very important essay. I really liked it and I have shared it widely.
I find it very sad that so many people, including the majority of the comments here, did not understand what you were saying, and either totally misinterpret the whole thing, or pick on minor unimportant details and misunderstand them.
> I haven't been diagnosed with any specific medical condition, but my mental capacity is very limited. … So what do I do about it? I use the simplest mainstream language available (Go) and very basic Python.
I think and I don't speak for him, but he's saying he writes simple code because he's stupid, which is different from saying simple code is stupid, because smart people can also choose to write simple code.
Op may be too harsh on himself but it's an open possibility that he may also be honest and accurate in his own self assessment.
Ok well you should work on your writing then because it sucks and doesn’t communicate your points well.
If I said “The sky is blue today. So, I went outside.” You would probably be surprised to learn that I hate clear weather and prefer the rain. Because, that would violate the most implicit, obvious assumption in my statement…
Likewise you saying “I’m mentally deficient. So I have to use Go” makes it seem pretty fucking obvious to me what you think about Go programmers and programming in general
You've totally failed to understand what the essay is about, and you are angrily trying to argue your incorrect understanding with the author when it is not what he said.
The most healthy approach is probably to compare yourself to yourself N years ago, not to others. Comparing yourself to others will always leave you disappointed.
But it's easier said than done. Especially if you read HN :)
> The most healthy approach is probably to compare yourself to yourself N years ago
Absolutely.
It wasn't him, but this is often attributed to Mark Twain:
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Working like this typically creates additional cognitive load because you have to constantly convince yourself that it's okay, you can handle it, it's just a job, etc. It also increases the risk of burnout.
Cool, that does help. It wasn't immediately obvious what the problem with the for loop sharing thing meant, but seeing it run and give unexpected results helped. :)
> Functions that shrink the size of a slice (Delete, DeleteFunc, Compact, CompactFunc, and Replace) now zero the elements between the new length and the old length.
I guess you can prepare the necessary packages and mount them in the WASI file system for the Python binary (WASI allows this). Then you can import these packages in your Python code.
