Why do I advise you not to get too hung up on technical details?

Pour a bucket of cold water on technicians who are caught up in the Internet frenzy.

A week ago, a friend in a group started to curse "Python is a garbage language" and "extremely inefficient". I didn't pay attention to it at first, but later he started to send red envelopes to curse Python. I am not a Python fan, but when I saw this, I thought it was a bit too much, so as the group leader, I had to come forward to educate him.

I first posted this:

• I found that when a low-level employee goes out to discuss business or even chat, even though he may hate the company, he will still involuntarily repeatedly emphasize that he is an employee of a "big" company and is full of pride.
• Because they are too weak, they need something huge to support them. This is the psychological characteristic of almost everyone.
• But if it is a company executive who goes out, they are likely to be full of cynicism about the company. The fundamental reason is that they can use cynicism to enhance their own value, "Look, I don't care about the things you take so seriously at all."

I saw this from someone’s “ideas” on Zhihu that morning, and I didn’t expect it to come in handy in the afternoon.

My intention in sending him this message was obvious, which was to tell him "Don't show off your intelligence and superiority by discrediting something." I don't care whether Python or C++ is better, or how many times faster C++ is than Python. What I care about is that, at the same cost, the value created by Python or C++ is greater.

Only students who have not yet graduated from the ivory tower can discuss the pros and cons of language, so I made a few pictures with PPT as a warning:

Then someone took the opportunity to change the topic, and within 10 rounds, that friend started to criticize the language again. He said, "But the core of AlphaGo uses C++ instead of py (funny)" and "Because we are not good enough to write assembly, we will be dissed by those who write assembly. The real masters only need two keys."

When I saw it, I said, "The capitalists are standing at the top, watching you and laughing," and then posted three more pictures:

Why do I advise you not to get too hung up on technical details?

Chinese education has taught children since childhood that "money is dirty", "making money is shameful", and "capital is evil". Coupled with the so-called "one exam determines your whole life", a large number of people only know how to study and take exams. They don't know where the money in society comes from. They naively think that as long as they have a degree, they can have money. They don't even think about where their boss's money comes from. Too many adults are willing to put their lives on others, which is why there are tragedies such as Huawei employees jumping off buildings and Tsinghua doctoral students dying suddenly while working on projects. The emergence of this tragedy is due to both the exploitation of labor by capitalists and the solidification of practitioners' thinking and their narrow vision.

Of course, there are also many people who are proud to work for a big company. If they get the offer from Google, they want to let the whole world know that Google has hired them, and then everyone will indeed compete to praise them. It is undeniable that people who go to big companies must be particularly outstanding in certain abilities. However, we can change our thinking. If your purpose of going to a big company is to "endorse your abilities", then why can't you work for a big company to endorse your abilities? Well, because this path is more difficult, everyone prefers to take shortcuts. After all, dealing with interviewers is much easier than dealing with the world.

I used to like technology very much and was a staunch believer in it. Later, when I found that technology could not solve the problem, I stopped seeking help from technology and began to seek help from capital. Capital is the foundation of the industrial world. No matter how advanced your technology is, it is just a pawn of capital. Ah, if you are willing to be a pawn, then I will not stop you. Everyone has his own way.

What can technology do for you?

Technology can bring you high salary and a good life in the short term. But it is a job for young people. The growth rate of technology is always faster than the growth of age. You will find that when you are endlessly immersed in business, you will be gradually eliminated by the times. You have never heard of the technical terms used by the new young people.

Technology is fascinating, but you can't be obsessed with it forever. When you are young, you regard technology as everything in your life. A computer can keep you busy day and night, because you know that you are making a work of art. But when you have no one to turn to for help, encounter obstacles in getting things done, or even the clerk with a monthly salary of 5,000 speaks to you in a tone of "I am your father", you will find that your high salary on the surface has not brought you any connections, resources and status in society, except for your experienced brain (of course, in fact, that does not belong to you, but to your boss).

If you want to change your destiny through technology and achieve class leap - I advise you to go home and farm.

What can't technology do for you?

As mentioned before, connections, resources and status are not available to an unknown technician. If you write code well, do more; if you write code quickly, do it interspersed. If you continue like this, you will not be able to command a great thing, but just be at ease in your own little piece of land.

If you are satisfied with this, I will accept it, but if everyone is limited to this, the world will stop moving forward. We need crazy and adventurous entrepreneurs, and we also need technical people who are intoxicated in their own little world. But technical people, you need to realize that you should not only have independent ideas (even if you can't do it now), but also slowly break away from the shackles of technology and take off the armor that you call yourself "technical" but is actually brick-moving.

Embrace the real world and fight against the world, not the machines.