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It's amazing for newcomers who like elegant code that can't be shipped. I'm that way. Or, rather, I was, and I look back on that time fondly. Other people who
by benatkin 14y ago
It's amazing for newcomers who like elegant code that can't be shipped. I'm that way. Or, rather, I was, and I look back on that time fondly.
Other people who get into web development aren't impressed by such things, and would rather see something like rails or WordPress which is shippable right away and then can be built on top of.
Some programmers, especially the kind to hang around on HN, would rather not work with people who don't understand the entire system they use. I often hear people say they wouldn't touch WordPress with a 10-foot pole. They are avoiding a huge part of the web development industry. This is a valid choice, but some people don't even realize they're making this choice, and I wish they would realize it so they could make sure that it's really what they want.
- epochwolf 14y ago> Some programmers, especially the kind to hang around on HN, would rather not work with people who don't understand the entire system they use. There's a reason for this. I've worked with people that don't understand how things work and don't really want to learn. These people cause enormous amounts of damage in any system that contains architecture beyond php in the webroot and algorithms beyond brute force. You let one of those people on a large production database, it's game over. They will run queries that miss all the indexes. They will remove constraints because they don't understand why they exist. They will use flat files in place of a database because the database is scary and then not understand why stuff goes missing in the multi-server production environment. These people are a liability in a project beyond small scale. They are the same people whose wordpress blogs are repeatedly hacked.