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> I think <INSERT_THING_HERE> is important but it seems most front end developers would prefer not to know. This is my experience. There are two types of peopl
by WrtCdEvrydy 9y ago
> I think <INSERT_THING_HERE> is important but it seems most front end developers would prefer not to know.
This is my experience. There are two types of people in this industry, people who want to make money quick and those who are technologists.
- ovao 9y agoWhat would you guess is the ratio of each?
- WrtCdEvrydy 9y agoIn my experience, I tend to think it's something like 30% technologists, 70% money makers. Unfortunately, barely anyone (including myself) wants to see themselves as the second group (for the record, I think I'm on the second group).
- devdad 9y agoI disagree. Not wanting to learn hex does not make you less of a techie. One can only focus on so much, and tech is huge.
- cyphar 9y agoIn Australia you learn about base-N numbers in primary school, I don't understand why you see that as a huge undertaking. Ultimately if you ever have to check the mode of a file on *nix, or interact with bitmasks in any way, you're going to run into numbers in different bases. Not to mention memory addresses when debugging. I mean, it's not _mandatory_ but it's something you'll run into eventually (though since I do quite low level systems programming, I expect that I see hex a lot more often than web developers -- though CSS colours are also in hex).
- wolco 9y agoI would be surprised if a frontend developer didn't understand hex coloring.
- madeofpalk 9y agoDoesn't this apply to all sorts of professions in every industry? It's not a particularly unique insight.