Having a strong opinion is not the problem. Acting as if your word is gospel and everyone else is wrong is. Just because you believe something doesn't mean you're right and doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to change your mind.

The ancient Stoics talked about this. Marcus Aurelius had this to say in his personal diary where he wrote stuff he wanted to remember: "You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone." Ryan Holiday had some extra commentary on this: "The Stoics saw opinion as the source of most misery. It’s what takes objective situations and makes them good, bad, wrong, unfair, essential, deserved or outrageous. It’s also what takes things that have nothing to do with us and makes them problems for us. Not liking what some other person is doing, not believing something outside of our control should be done the way that’s it’s being done, and on and on." I agree with the stoics' take, and since getting serious about life I try to have far fewer opinions, because they're likely to be sources of unnecessary and *useless* discomfort. I can discern, I can have principles, I can recognize something that was good or evil, I can take action accordingly, and I can speak the truth without hesitation -- but good god I don't need to actually have a position or opinion on everything that's happening outside of me and which otherwise doesn't affect me.

Strong opinions require strong receipts

I think there is a difference between justifying your choices rather than convincing others what they should think. I think this is what this guy is going on about

I have strong opinions about screen tearing.

The main takeaway is that it's okay to have opinions on things, but just don't let those opinions prevent you from trying new things or ideas.

SQL is actually pronounced SQL, not SQL

I’ve been on Git for 13 years, hadn’t heard of rerere before (apparently I never finished reading the docs). Thanks!

Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one.

Ok but the way in he phrased his own video was nothing but a very strong opinion by itself. Bruh this is a "only a sith talks in absolutes" moment

a link to the original video in the video description would be nice 👍

This guy introduced me to react

I love strong opinions, much better than a so-so answers. However, many strong opinions treat the opposite parties like a lower class compared to them. That, I will step 10 feet away.

neither twitter or facebook or any social media is good for finding opinions, it's only good to keep you in your bubble

Comments full of bots 💀

Others pointed it out, but the point is more about the existence of opinions at all. Convincing aims at changing someone else's opinion, it's not necessary to get your point across. Explaining is what's necessary. You can make a good argument for something by presenting it as an opinion: "why I prefer A". On twitter, people tend to do "why A is the absolute best and only solution worth considering". You can have a sound reasoning without trying to convince them this applies to them and their situation just as well as you and your situation. You can't argue without trying to convince, but you can explain without trying to convince.

My soft opinion is that strong opinions are best provided in long form content where context can be provided. I also see the utility in strong opinions when it comes to quickly understanding the opposing side's opinion.

The format of what you want to convey is so true, also the reality that if you're going to have a meeting about something, then people won't read what you sent. I believe Jeff Bezos said on Lex Friedmans podcast that the format you have to present something at Amazon in is a 6 page memo and they set aside 30 mins at the start of a meeting for everyone to read the memo, so everyone is on the same page. They then collect opinions, starting with the least senior and working their way up. Sounds like a great process, but would be hard to implement at a non-executive level.

20:04 rip arrays gang. I love when you share little stories like this about variadic parameters

I think there are room for both strong opinions and "kinda sometimes" opinions. Because the latter can still give you insight on the nuances of the matter, as, you know, life itself is filled to the brim with nuanced stuff. I've found time and time again that wise people's takes are most often than not nuanced.

As a casual developer trying to get into the industry, I enjoy the arguments. It gives me both sides of an argument that I'm not familiar with.

Love when prime just make a speech before play the video, noice

Doesn't strong opinions weakly held mean that you don't have to force your opinion to make sense? Like if your opinion is really that good, you don't even HAVE to hold on to it because it won't go anywhere

9:51 Original quote: "Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something"

Funny thing I those "Strong Opinions" went through my mind too . Forming such strong opinions as youtuber or twitch streamer is their business model. While I can filter such inputs in software development space because I studied it gets really hard when its get harder when I go into let say physics . There is so much conflicting infos especially when is about the edge from what we know . I get from time to time confused. I don't think having an opinion is enough.

I prefer this take when it's in the form of a comedy sketch.

"Why do you need to convince others?" - Is really something that only someone asks who only works alone. Others people opinions matter because they affect you - directly or indirectly. You'll work together with people or their code and then this will affect you.

You need to have strong opinions; you need to believe in what you're doing because it makes your work better! Many people are afraid to say anything because they believe, deep down, they have nothing to contribute but rarely is that the case!

Now i can't unsee primes impression

I need opinions what do people do for integration tests like what are you using? I’m currently thinking of what i should use for it in a embedded context.

Opinions by definition don't need to be based on facts, and often won't be. That severely limits usefulness of their strongness.

I think people should recognize the difference between an opinion and a suggestion. Especially good ones.

In const vs let obviously var is the best one

The biggest takeaway from this video is to provide an opinion/argument in its proper place(the google doc vs slack example).

Prime persuading hard to convince us into believing his strong opinion 💯

I will take no max slander lol. I know you're not doing that but max and yourself are my go to people for learning and coding

came for opinions left with a strong desire for doom flavored pop tarts

The best way to convince someone is through inception... Even better, a sleep mechanism that allows groups of people to meet up in their dreams.... and then you can convince them in that dream environment.

"We should Think iNside the box"

I believe the term you're looking for is "meat spin", which apparently still has its own website.

Strong opinions are bad, strong conclusions are great even if those are also opinions.

In regards to floating point, i want posits

strong opinions are a consequence of knowing your shit. nobody should just have them for the sake of having them

Would be nice if the reacted videoes was linked in the description.

The epitome of a JavaScript WebDev: not caring about advancing the field in a meaningful way because someone will release another framework next week.

13:56-14:16 how to defeat your adversaries without fighting them

Variadic Parameters urrg, i’d prefer arrays well depending on the language but if it’s using C ABI for that don’t simply don’t. Use Arrays it will make your live better.

No one wins at programming, everyone just loses slowly

Attention is all you need ...

the end was perfect !!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ok as someone who recently decided rebasing SUCKS because of conflicts, please help me out on what rerere is??? I must know.

Strong opinions, held lightly.

Hey that man taught me Go! Nice

I've bought a few of Maximillians Vue courses back in the day through work. The name lured me in but the content kept me interested!

I'm 90 seconds in and I'm thinking "get rid of 'strong'". You either have opinions you stand behind, or you don't. If you state a position clearly, you have an option. If you're mincing words and sound uncommitted, you dont have an option. This is, clearly, my opinion. It's not strong. It's not weak. It just is an option.

one should be equally open-minded as they are strongly opinionated

developers should care more about getting secure and stable code into production than nitpicking and posturing to impress girls.

old trading proverb "Strong options, weakly held".

I have a strong opinion that people shouldn't have string opinions.

Strong opinions on strong opinions, the black hole of the internet

That's, like, your opinion, man

Opinions are like assholes. Everbody's got one

Strong opinions weakly held, literally means being able to reconsider in the face of new evidence.

Thanks for the good tip 24:10

I listen to Max’s udemy courses at 1.25x and its like 1x normal people. I cant believe he talks irl at 0.8x. I feel like he is trolling everyone by manually slowing his videos by 15-20%

I grew up in church. Then I got to know atheists well. Software engineers are the very best of both of these.

10:20-12:40 real life skill tips. Also git pro tips.

bro had said "odin is trash" and say i ain't got no strong opinion

Knox had a great point that I think was overlooked, tweeting it and posting videos is not the same it might come close when there is good faith, but not really.

Personally I hate it so much arguing is done purely with opinions based on nothing but preference instead of facts, sometimes even missing any anecdotal evidence. Confidence and being the loudest seem to work great to get your way though.

I've found a few good insights here just watching you read, rant & cook.

My hot take... rxjs in angular is pretty nice if you don't overdo it

Type vs var keyword - that’s the ultimate discussion. Var should of course be used everywhere unless Type is explicitly required. The reason is simple: var is like an interface to a concept. This requires a slightly different way of thinking when reading code. The “concept” is described by the expression after the assignment operator. This means the variable name and the expression must be descriptive and readable, so it leads to self-describing code that is easier to read/understand. And because we are coding to an interface (of a concept), future devs are free to refactor as they wish as long as the concept holds; they aren’t constrained by the type decided previously.

Problem is most noobs get duped by the manufactured rage bait and just follow blindly behind the loudest and best debater.

9:03 Yeah, a real, real master baiter

I had strong onions for lunch!

the let vs constipate

That wordy guy sure has strong opinions on having strong opinions.

I like his hoodie 😅

This guy is a Seth Rogen doppelganger

Thank you prime for being lucid.

convincing the right people to take action versus convincing the most people to interact with your opinion on twitter/X is completely different.

Opinions can only be changed with facts.... If your opinion is changed by the opinions of others, then it wasn't your opinion and the new one isn't either

The main thing that really matters is who has the best mustache here?

At 17:49 he says, you lose the game. It made me think about the game. I lose. iykyk

I wouldn't know a tenth of what I know about programming today if it wasn't for me and all the other people around me sharing opinions, you guys included. Willful ignorance by means of avoiding discussion and/or persuasion is still just willful ignorance.

Gah, i love that the list of "opinionated" choices was so specific. God, no please dont write 100 lines functions, and only test code after the fact.

2024 the year of the dev ROFL copter

I can't call twitter, X. Always weird

Maximilian Schwarzmüller is awesome!

Strong opinions but weakly held is the way

This guy udemy course is awsome

Bogosort is the best sort

My problem are people that make their opinion made of things they understand and not.

Wait until he hears my opinions.

I think what he points out is trying to convice people in internet to use other things like they are their collegaus. What is going to change about your life when you convince a random person in internet to use what you want?

Ruh ROOOOE... Maximillian is under the PrimeTime heat-lamp. He's got good content as far as tutorials go. Lots of respect for Max, and Primes reaction... but ultimately who will win in a fight to the finish? I try to avoid X, Fakesbook, and working on the damn YT Shorts. "We need to quit worrying about const and let, and the little things... and focus more on Doom on a Poptart."

C'mon that guy taught me Angular a few years ago

I don’t want to get fired 😊

I think most people outside of the US is not on Xitter in general