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I love the wheat analogy on a few levels An excellent chef may know that midwestern wheat makes tougher bread than southern wheat, and that White Lily flower i
by Townley 8y ago
I love the wheat analogy on a few levels
An excellent chef may know that midwestern wheat makes tougher bread than southern wheat, and that White Lily flower is a great brand for softer wheat with less proteins. But that's useless knowledge--and added complexity--for a total newbie who's never thought about what "rising dough" means.
One of my friends got into programming recently by building netlify-hosted react websites. Yes, his need to learn JSX and the strange capitalization of reactifiedHtmlAttributes is additional mental overhead, but because some onramps have gone away entirely, he won't have to worry about FTPing files up to a server, or Linux file permissions, or configuring Nginx, until he's established.
So whether it's cooking or programming, the "on ramps" have definitely changed, but it's never been easier for anyone to get started building high-quality products.
- dccoolgai 8y agoWait, are we seriously saying HTML and CSS are "useless knowledge" for web development. Wheat is a horrible analogy... it's like trying to be a cook without knowing how to use an oven. "Ovens are useless since George Foreman grills came out." You probably could cook most things on a Foreman grill, but that doesn't make you a good chef.
- otras 8y agoYou may have missed it with the aside, but GP wrote “useless knowledge--and added complexity-- for a total newbie” (emphasis added)
- learc83 8y agoHTML and CSS aren't useless knowledge even for a total newbie. It's all HTML and CSS in the end. Maybe one day the abstractions will be good enough, but for now they are way too leaky to try to pretend they don't exist, even for total newbies.
- zorronimous 8y agoWe have microwaves now. Forget everything you know - this is the future. And with the future I mean the bullshit.
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- kkarakk 8y agoif you're working for a company that uses a react stack as a noob - what use are advanced html and css going to be? sure maybe you'll hit a subtle and infuriating bug but usually you'll have someone more senior who'll point out the way. now if you ONLY knew advanced html and css, do you think you're going to get hired at company that's looking for a beginner react dev? maybe but the job market is weird
- munificent 8y agoDid you miss the rest of the sentence that ended with "for a total newbie"?
- nighthawk454 8y agoAgreed. Along those lines, it blows my mind that the "hello world" for GraphQL apps is a real-time chat app. The "on ramps" aren't gone, the bar just moves forward.