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wow, that's a really long reply for a couple of short rants on HN, you either have tons of free time (kinda implied now that you have explained that you work as
by SadWebDeveloper 9y ago
wow, that's a really long reply for a couple of short rants on HN, you either have tons of free time (kinda implied now that you have explained that you work as a full time freelancer) or really take this site seriously; personally i don't take this site seriously for that kind of discussion because the vast majority of the audience here is not a developer, i even have a comment on my history asking this in a thread.
Anyways, i believe that all your comments/rants can be resumed on you getting offended by my profile motto on javascript/nodejs developers, my disdain for testing-all-the-things mentality and some out of context sarcasm that may or may not have hit hard on you (m guessing it hit, otherwise you won't even try to pull an ad hominem move like the one before), the only answer i can think to this is... sorry that my jokes/rants got you, it wasn't intended, was a rant i write when i first originally join HN almost 2 years ago.
Now that we have made that clear let's rewind to my original rant, the one talking about jr's pushing TDD+CI+Slack+Hot-New-Thing on everything and add that we were talking before about jr's trend to make everything on SPA's and OP rant on seniors not grasping the need for that tech.
In today "web development best practices", it is common to build things out of duck-tape, jr's like to bootstrap their environment with all the batteries included and by today "standards" this includes TDD+CI+Slack+Hot-New-Thing, which is fine if you are going to build the next-uber but not-so-fine if you get hired to built a simple webpage for a client (the boring stuff, nobody wants to work that jrs usually had to grind before touching business-critical infrastructure), webpage that barely has dynamic stuff but now requires a hole built process because jr's thought that in the future they might need it.
This trend leaves me or any other senior always talking to them on the good and bad things of being a "lego/duck-tape developer", because not all of the jrs are full engineers or have a PhD on computer science the vast majority join either fresh from college or just took a couple of online courses and were able to navigate the HR interview process.
That was is my original rant that you took it wrongfully as an attack on your belief (well kinda your main job as a devops consultant), maybe you have been working so many years in big projects that you forgot that not everyone is building the next uber.
Kindest Regards
PS: Why m not in your hall of shame? i don't deserve that honor yet? ;)