allyjweir

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by allyjweir 3y ago
I felt very similar when I started working in Go last year. Coming even from languages like Typescript and Python which are most definitely _not_ functional but do have some of the niceties like map/filter/reduce, I was missing it
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by allyjweir 8y ago
Yep I’ve had this recently too. Three devs joined the team who had no experience in relational databases, didn’t even know what SQL was for. A few weeks later they told this story of using MongoDB and how they had layered some rules on top
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by allyjweir 9y ago
"The only good diff is a red diff"
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by allyjweir 9y ago
Yes I agree. Bad engineering led them to not accepting the reality that technical debt is unavoidable. In a misguided attempt to avoid it, they overengineered ironically leading to more debt than might otherwise have accrued.
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by allyjweir 9y ago
From my recent experience in a new team, this article strikes a chord. Joining a team that is scared of technical debt and runs circles round themselves in a bid to avoid it end up producing more debt than they would otherwise. For example,
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by allyjweir 9y ago
I like your comparison to nutrition. To stretch the analogy slightly, sometimes in life you only have time for that microwave meal rather than a freshly prepared salad. It's about ingestion of calories to keep going, not the quality of
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by allyjweir 9y ago
This is one of my favourite technical sites. It is very clear and to the point about its good use cases while being clear where an alternative would be a better choice. In a similar vein, VueJS has a comprehensive exploration/compariso
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by allyjweir 9y ago
How mean spirited. This attempt at humour undermines Laravel's developer's efforts unneccessarily.
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by allyjweir 9y ago
Also an ASL (in Scotland) and can confirm that it is incredibly rewarding helping to shape young people's approach to leadership and teamwork. It's very hard and can consume A LOT of time (to a detrimental effect on my career no d
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by allyjweir 10y ago
Great job on the project! I had this exact same idea about a week ago and put it on my Trello. Will definitely be taking a deep dive into your website for inspiration. Congratulations on shipping!
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by allyjweir 10y ago
Luckily they also thought about that! You can replace both the religion and reference to the Queen with: "To uphold our Scout values, to do my duty to the country in which I am now living"
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by allyjweir 10y ago
What country did you have that experience in? I'm an atheist and a Scout leader in the UK. When writing my programme I always include a spiritual component to it but leave it non-religious. We definitely discuss and explore different r
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Learning the Standard Library – The challenges of being a polyglot developer(medium.com)
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by allyjweir 12y ago
For the JQuery, it is more about separation of concerns and keeping a maintainable an clear codebase. If all of your JQuery is in one file and somehow a small change to one part breaks another page's code that can be very difficult to