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Keep in mind that, in a field which is approximately doubling every year, about half the people in the field have less than one year of experience. Sure, advic
by patio11 11y ago
Keep in mind that, in a field which is approximately doubling every year, about half the people in the field have less than one year of experience. Sure, advice like "avoid hitting the network when you don't have to", "avoid N+1 queries", "hash tables are more convenient to search for items than unsorted arrays", etc are pretty basic for many of us, but there was a day not so many years ago when they were news to us, too, so let's warmly welcome the more junior members of the community and assist them as we were assisted.
This extends to being appropriately thankful when people write guides to avoiding problems which hit someone in month 4 of their job. Did you write that guide? Did I write that guide? No. This guy wrote that guide. Bully for this guy. The world is better off that he spent two hours on this.
- workusername 11y agoI don't agree. The web has many examples and tutorials of the basics. I come to HN for the special stuff. If I want to see a terraced house I can go to any town in the UK. I go to Barcelona when I want to see a Gaudi. Great that the author wrote this. Assuming it didn't get in the way of him doing something better then I might agree that the world is a better place (let's give that emotive defender speech stuff a kick), good for him, but I don't see that HN is a better place. This is not the first time that beginner dev Go stuff has been posted here, and hung around the top of the first page, it's increasing. If that's the direction HN is heading in, the impressive stuff displaced by junior tutorials, the Gaudis will leave, the juniors will post, watch the feedback loop.
- Cthulhu_ 11y agoThat's your opinion, but since HN and any site with a voting system is effectively a democracy, the majority disagrees. Granted, a lot of upvotes will probably be more of an encouragement to the author than saying 'this is worthy of HN', but still.
- hacker_9 11y agoAt least we moved on from hearing about a new Javascript framework everyday. Now we argue about how Go is/isn't a good language. Oh and whether AlphaGo beating Lee Sedoul marks the end of the human race, or means nothing at all.
- autotune 11y agoLet's not forget the "who's hiring" threads. HackerNews is the best source for finding interesting jobs and companies IMHO.
- LanceH 11y agoIt's basic and obvious to those of us who are good at programming. But not all of us are programmers and this may give them some insight through an applied, real world example about what is obvious to us but apparently not obvious to every programmer. No, we don't need every tutorial or every Go thread to come up, but this one wasn't so bad.
- delinka 11y agoObligatory Randall Munroe reference: https://m.xkcd.com/1053/ https://m.xkcd.com/1053/
- wiremine 11y agoI'm in the lucky 10,000 who saw this first the first time today. Thx for sharing! Should be required reading for HN, if such a thing existed.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y agoWell there is this https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Edit: Speaking of go have you seen the new OK go video?