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If I had the ability to downvote your post I would have. Your comment "I have not bothered to learn, nor do I plan anytime soon" goes against everything I beli

by bstar77 15y ago

If I had the ability to downvote your post I would have. Your comment "I have not bothered to learn, nor do I plan anytime soon" goes against everything I believe in as a web developer. Sure, I may not be proficient in everything, but I try to have a working knowledge of all of the latest popular technologies so that I am not ignorant to what's going on around me. Like others have stated, 30min is all you need to really grasp what's going on in coffee script. Is that kind of time investment really that challenging to come by?

pooriaazimi 15y ago
I didn't downvote him because of his civil comment about misleading comment, but because of his un-hackerish tone about him not planning to learn something that is completely relevant to his career (his description in his page is: I'm a JavaScript and Node nerd). Maybe I shouldn't have done it, but I really have nothing against him. I truly wanted him the best and downvoting his (IMO) wrong comment was an effort to make him understand that what he is doing is wrong. We are all online friends and friends ought to warn each other when they see their friend is doing something stupid (I really think writing any script longer than 20 lines in JavaScript instead of CoffeeScript is stupid).
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- zalew 15y ago
  > I really think writing any script longer than 20 lines in JavaScript instead of CoffeeScript is stupid) I think OP will get by without your career advice pretty well.
  - pooriaazimi 15y ago
    You can never know! That's what I'm saying. it's not like learning a new programming paradigm (like functional) that will take days or weeks, it will take 10 minutes reading www.coffeescript.org front page to see if my career advice is right or wrong. You can't call yourself a nerd without knowing the most thriving dialect of that language... Specially if you're young and reading a hacker website. I realy don't want to get into a virtual pointless argument, but just out of curiosity: do you know CoffeeScript? Because it's very strange to me that someone might be against using CoffeeScript and condemning it like that (its debugging is worse than JS, but on every other front it's the clear winner). if you're not familiar with it, I suggest you take a look at CoffeeScript.org to see how and why it differs from JavaScript.
    - zalew 15y ago
      First of all, I'm not condemning using CS. Frankly, I couldn't care less if you use it or not. If it fits your needs, good for you. Second, OP is probably a big boy and can decide for himself (as can I) what tools to use to get stuff done. Pissing contests like 'you are not a nerd if...' are not for me, so let's not 'get into a virtual pointless argument'.

by bstar77 15y ago

pooriaazimi 15y ago

I didn't downvote him because of his civil comment about misleading comment, but because of his un-hackerish tone about him not planning to learn something that is completely relevant to his career (his description in his page is: I'm a JavaScript and Node nerd). Maybe I shouldn't have done it, but I really have nothing against him. I truly wanted him the best and downvoting his (IMO) wrong comment was an effort to make him understand that what he is doing is wrong. We are all online friends and friends ought to warn each other when they see their friend is doing something stupid (I really think writing any script longer than 20 lines in JavaScript instead of CoffeeScript is stupid).

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zalew 15y ago
> I really think writing any script longer than 20 lines in JavaScript instead of CoffeeScript is stupid) I think OP will get by without your career advice pretty well.
- pooriaazimi 15y ago
  You can never know! That's what I'm saying. it's not like learning a new programming paradigm (like functional) that will take days or weeks, it will take 10 minutes reading www.coffeescript.org front page to see if my career advice is right or wrong. You can't call yourself a nerd without knowing the most thriving dialect of that language... Specially if you're young and reading a hacker website. I realy don't want to get into a virtual pointless argument, but just out of curiosity: do you know CoffeeScript? Because it's very strange to me that someone might be against using CoffeeScript and condemning it like that (its debugging is worse than JS, but on every other front it's the clear winner). if you're not familiar with it, I suggest you take a look at CoffeeScript.org to see how and why it differs from JavaScript.
  - zalew 15y ago
    First of all, I'm not condemning using CS. Frankly, I couldn't care less if you use it or not. If it fits your needs, good for you. Second, OP is probably a big boy and can decide for himself (as can I) what tools to use to get stuff done. Pissing contests like 'you are not a nerd if...' are not for me, so let's not 'get into a virtual pointless argument'.