My journey in becoming a polyglot
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My journey in
becoming a
polyglot
@TBOHNENJNR
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What is a polyglot
“A Person who speaks many langauges”
“Having a command of many languages”
Comes from Greek polu-, “many” and glotto,
“tongue”.
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VB5
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Don’t make fun of the first graders
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{ C# }
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Parkinson’s law
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for
its completion.“
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Conway’s law
organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce
designs which are copies of the communication structures of these
organizations
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JavaScript
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Nobody is perfect
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Ruby
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The foundation is important, know
your languages
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ML / Functional
“If you aren't in over your head, how
do you know how tall you are?”
― T.S. Eliot
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Knowing other languages makes
you better at other languages
Diversity Principle: “The usual
suspects tend to have the same
conversation and reach the same
conclusions.”
Peggy Holman, journalismthatmatters.net
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A day of Go
Fancy Gopher, by Renée French
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• Find the time
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Drawbacks to being a polyglot?
Pareto’s Principle (80 – 20 Rule): “80% of output
for 20% of input”
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Am I better for it?
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Where to start?
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Challenge
Dunning–Kruger effect: “Is a cognitive
bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer
from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their
ability much higher than is accurate.”