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Lol for both the gatekeeping and TextMate (does anyone uses it still beyond authoring grammars?)
by a1o 3y ago
Lol for both the gatekeeping and TextMate (does anyone uses it still beyond authoring grammars?)
- llm_trw 3y agoGate keeping is very useful. We need more of it.
- berkes 3y agoWhy?
- llm_trw 3y agoPeople keep complaining that software is getting worse every year, that quality is dropping and that it does less with more. Yet the simple solution of not letting in people who can't code a working sorting algorithm is seen as some type of crime against humanity.
- sherburt3 3y agoYeah we should get rid of all the eggs so we can have more chickens.
- llm_trw 3y agoWe shouldn't raise platypuses if we want chickens either.
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoI couldn't do that from memory, not something that is needed 99.99% of the time. Just use a standard library. I would agree that people should be able to understand what type of algorithm to use in different situations. Most code I've seen isnt very good. The degree the author has (or the absence of one) has not been a useful predictor of code quality in my experience.
- llm_trw 3y ago[flagged]
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoOk, do share! What's your point?
- llm_trw 3y agoYou are building skyscrapers with Lego in the name of efficiency.
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoNo, you are using appropriate materials instead of gold plating every last rivet.
- llm_trw 3y agoIf you were using appropriate materials then software wouldn't be a giant pile of shit.
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoI'd say software mostly suffers from poor construction and maintenance rather than the inappropriate use of materials. This is largely driven by economic factors requiring fast delivery, not specifically the skills of the developers (although that is clearly a factor). Do you have a different perspective ?
- berkes 3y agoWho is complaining that software gets worse and that quality is dropping? And, more importantly, do they offer any data to back that up? Or do they, like I do, anecdotally complain that slack eats all my memory to do stuff that we could do with IRC decades ago? (Which is provably wrong when I think about it for more than a few minutes)