BigJono

63 ms·

601.
by BigJono 9y ago
I think this is definitely the case. Have a browse over Stack Overflow. Most of the questions are asking very specific things and getting very specific answers. Rarely is the context explained properly by either party. People use these ques
602.
by BigJono 9y ago
That just raises more questions. Can anyone here give a concrete example of a real world problem that is more cleanly solved with these changes to the Promise spec? There's a lot of talk about FP and type theory here, and none about ac
603.
by BigJono 9y ago
Yep, I've fought this fight multiple times. The latest iteration for me has been managers trying to repurpose React devs into React Native ones at a moment's notice. React Native isn't a replacement for years of familiarity w
604.
by BigJono 9y ago
I share the exact same aversion as you (in-fact I'm often criticised for being too far in that direction), but I find Webpack to be a very peculiar target for reducing complexity. At it's core it's a very simple tool that doe
605.
by BigJono 9y ago
React doesn't force you to break a "relatively simple DOM structure" into twenty functions. That's just shit programming, which unfortunately is library agnostic.
606.
by BigJono 9y ago
I'm curious how people think React is overkill when it's entire API pretty much boils down to one or two functions. React is the simplest, most powerful library I've used in my life. It's the community that (often misgui
607.
by BigJono 9y ago
For some reason the phrase "BEM block technology" makes me cringe. It sounds like something a non-technical manager would say, but these guys are actual devs...
608.
by BigJono 9y ago
I guess it really comes down to the trade-off between customization and familiarity. IME in any given company there's plenty of people going to bat for the former, and hardly anyone that cares about the latter. On the "sliding sca
609.
by BigJono 9y ago
I've been a professional Javascript dev for over 5 years and never once run into a bug due to any of these problems. I agree that they are problems, but their impact on day to day use of the language is zero. If you want examples of re
610.
by BigJono 9y ago
Are those prices in USD? Surely if you're deliberately trying to look shit you don't spend $1,000 on each piece of clothing to do so...
611.
by BigJono 9y ago
Just when I thought I was getting the hang of how equity works... I didn't understand a word of that (other than non-transferable exercised options).
612.
by BigJono 9y ago
They could always sell flamethrowers.
613.
by BigJono 9y ago
I feel like there's a void to be filled here. Something that allows people to build a sense of community without all the make-believe crap.
614.
by BigJono 9y ago
Funnily enough the PS1 and N64 are probably two of the worst mainstream consoles to emulate now. Progress on them seems to have been completely outstripped by most other consoles in the past decade.
615.
by BigJono 9y ago
We could always just move the goalposts a bit. I don't need my clothes folded, I'd be over the moon with a robot that can wash and dry my clothes, then spread them loosely and haphazardly over a "clothes shelf" or someth
616.
by BigJono 9y ago
Are the Chinese knock-offs any good? I just looked up the price of a Roomba. $600 AUD to start for the shittiest model :(
617.
by BigJono 9y ago
I'm not sure if this is actually the case. I'm starting to meet more and more people who aren't that keen on amassing wealth, and they tend to spend decent stretches of time unemployed (traveling, working on side projects, bo
618.
by BigJono 9y ago
Yes but are those murders by members of crime organisations or by some random that had a mental breakdown and easy access to his or a family member's gun?
619.
by BigJono 9y ago
In what situations are guns not needed though? I wouldn't even dream of doing anything other than manning a booze bus in a place where people are allowed to legally carry guns if I didn't have my own one. It doesn't seem like
620.
by BigJono 9y ago
That article is a crock of shit by the way. I know two traffic controllers and they're both on $25 an hour. I'm sure there's a couple somewhere that are well connected with the unions and get sweet gigs, or some actual engine
621.
by BigJono 9y ago
In response to (4). I'd posit that beginners have a hard time with this stuff because they use too many leaky abstractions. Like the article says, if you want to use an ORM for anything non-trivial, you need to learn both the ORM an
622.
by BigJono 9y ago
It's much easier to catch someone smuggling drugs through an airport than it is stopping someone from walking over an imaginary line that's thousands of kilometres long. So less drugs in circulation, which would have an effect on
623.
by BigJono 9y ago
React has perfectly fine state management out of the box, and a "router" is about 20 lines of code for most people's use cases.
624.
by BigJono 9y ago
You're not wrong. I come in here knowing barely anything about Soylent and it's just full of people shitting on it without any further explanation :/ Not overly useful.
625.
by BigJono 9y ago
I'd be interested to hear what requirements it failed. Because on the surface (which is as deep as I've looked into Soylent) it seems pretty comprehensive, no?
626.
by BigJono 9y ago
I don't think it's a good suggestion for someone to learn a web app framework in a tutorial that teaches the basics of Javascript.
627.
by BigJono 9y ago
> the solution is probably on SO somewhere SO (especially the PHP and JS parts) is full of terrible answers that basically instruct people to throw darts at the board until one hits, without explaining any of the underlying concepts behi
628.
by BigJono 9y ago
> - Javascript: Learn to use a web framework ugh... How about "Learn about the DOM and web APIs"?
629.
by BigJono 9y ago
Funny you mention that. The only "methodology" I feel I have enough anecdata to comfortably vouch for is YAGNI. In my experience, whichever team fucks themselves with bad library choices is going to lose this experiment 100% of th
630.
by BigJono 9y ago
Interesting. This run's counter to a lot of my experiences. I don't tend to see much office politics at all with software developers. Maybe because salary isn't tied as closely to rank and it's so easy to shop around and

More ›