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>neuroscientists: they can go to the bathroom and half their knowledge will be out of date Web development seems to be even worse than neuroscience in this reg

by jrcii 11y ago

>neuroscientists: they can go to the bathroom and half their knowledge will be out of date Web development seems to be even worse than neuroscience in this regard. I feel like I have to perpetually study to be abreast of best practices.

rifung 11y ago
Well, at least the languages you use stay pretty much the same? Javascript, HTML, and CSS are always going to be there. Although.. I suppose that could be considered both good and bad..
- smrq 11y ago
  While that's half-true, compare ES3 to ES2015, or DHTML to HTML5.
  - ocfx 11y ago
    This was a transition that took years though, plenty of time to learn the new technology.
sedachv 11y ago
> Web development seems to be even worse than neuroscience in this regard. I feel like I have to perpetually study to be abreast of best practices. The worst part is web development is a completely arbitrary made-up system without any abstractions you can learn and use in a different field of work. It does not even transfer to something as closely related as desktop/mobile GUI toolkits. I view "knowledge" like that as a waste of time and avoid it whenever possible. I wish there was a word for it, something to imply "garbage knowledge."
- samizdatum 11y ago
  Really? Functional reactive programming, immutable data, unidirectional data flow, application state as a fold over a stream of actions... it seems like web development is seeing a really high uptake of valuable, transferable abstractions and ideas, far more than mobile GUI toolkits, for example.
  - sedachv 11y ago
    JavaScript programming is, CSS and HTML not so much. I would also argue that the details of frameworks like Angular also fall in the "garbage knowledge" pile.
    - samizdatum 11y ago
      Fair enough, you meant to refer to a subset of web development, rather than the entire field. It's a significantly weaker claim, though. I could pick out subsets of any field of work, and declare them non-transferable, and the details of most systems are going to be less transferable than the concepts undergirding them.

by jrcii 11y ago

rifung 11y ago

Well, at least the languages you use stay pretty much the same? Javascript, HTML, and CSS are always going to be there. Although.. I suppose that could be considered both good and bad..

smrq 11y ago
While that's half-true, compare ES3 to ES2015, or DHTML to HTML5.
- ocfx 11y ago
  This was a transition that took years though, plenty of time to learn the new technology.

sedachv 11y ago

> Web development seems to be even worse than neuroscience in this regard. I feel like I have to perpetually study to be abreast of best practices. The worst part is web development is a completely arbitrary made-up system without any abstractions you can learn and use in a different field of work. It does not even transfer to something as closely related as desktop/mobile GUI toolkits. I view "knowledge" like that as a waste of time and avoid it whenever possible. I wish there was a word for it, something to imply "garbage knowledge."

samizdatum 11y ago
Really? Functional reactive programming, immutable data, unidirectional data flow, application state as a fold over a stream of actions... it seems like web development is seeing a really high uptake of valuable, transferable abstractions and ideas, far more than mobile GUI toolkits, for example.
- sedachv 11y ago
  JavaScript programming is, CSS and HTML not so much. I would also argue that the details of frameworks like Angular also fall in the "garbage knowledge" pile.
  - samizdatum 11y ago
    Fair enough, you meant to refer to a subset of web development, rather than the entire field. It's a significantly weaker claim, though. I could pick out subsets of any field of work, and declare them non-transferable, and the details of most systems are going to be less transferable than the concepts undergirding them.