why does content marketing get upvoted here? i would wager that 50%-70% of the stuff upvoted is either content marketing or personal brand building.

edit: this account does nothing but submit blog posts from this domain. they work for the consulting firm[1]. isn't there a rule against shilling?

[1]https://gist.github.com/NaeosPsy/155f76a25e0c93eb067a0f4d86d...

What's the difference between personal brand building and talking? I mean, come on, I'm even building the whatshisface brand by posting this comment. (whatshisface: America's most trusted source of comments disagreeing with the parent comment).

>What's the difference between personal brand building and talking?

Brand building is a genre not an action. Brand building writing has almost zero researched, rigorous, useful content.

I'm not sure if I would want my person brand to be a reputation for "almost zero researched, rigorous, useful content." Do people really consider that self-marketing?

>brand to be a reputation for "almost zero researched, rigorous, useful content.

You think "9 out of 10 dentists recommend Colgate" is researched?

literally every kind of marketing to ever succeed in the last ~100 years is like this. Brand building is no different; You drastically underestimate the power of well-written copy.

Dr. Konstantin Metlov ( https://dr-klm.livejournal.com/ ) could likely give a speech on modern physics as well as on J language. http://www.vector.org.uk/art10005770

Late Roman Karshiev ( http://forums.airbase.ru/ ) was also Haskell enthusiast more than ten years ago...

Come on, Haskell is not that complicated. C++ is way more difficult

Every programming language can absorb an equal amount of effort. The only thing that varies is how much you get done.

Is it really? Got no exposure to C++ but the rabbit hole goes pretty deep with Haskell.

Computation is a rabbit hole, there is no end to its depth.

Comparing the definition of C++ to Haskell, one will see that there's orders of magnitude more incidental complexity in the former than the latter. Every professional Haskeller I've spoken to who previously did professional C++ has emphatically agreed.

Oh yes it is. I've done both for a long time (C++ since early 1990s, have known committee members, written a lang proposal, Haskell since '07).

The difference is that the C++ complexity is mostly from fitting abstraction into the legacy compat/efficiency constraints, while on Haskell it's learning more math/theory.