black-alert

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by black-alert 7y ago
I never walked around the earth and I cannot think of 1 single reason for willing to do that. And although I'm not female I would still expect it to be a risky undertaking, for any living being.
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by black-alert 7y ago
When I first learned to code in TurboC some 30 years ago I used the IDE's step debugger for a while. Although a great tool for learning how your code executes line after line, I stopped using it after a short while because I found it t
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by black-alert 7y ago
I think we do have a talent shortage, seriously, I see it all the time in the companies I work for. And if you run in an interview like the author describes, it is very likely that the interviewer just lacks talent and happens to be in that
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by black-alert 7y ago
depends heavily on your bank account
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by black-alert 7y ago
> There is really no way I would maintain that same project without types. That's bold. Do you think no developer would be able to manage it without TS? In that case you must be a fanboy! And honestly, are you not using 'any&#x
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by black-alert 7y ago
Yes it is optional until it gets hard to find a job with typeless Ruby. And indeed split Ruby communities just as with Javascript. The bad thing is that static typing in dynamic languages is HOT, which means if you don't move over to t
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by black-alert 7y ago
I come from Assembly and C, now working in Javascript. One of the reasons I made the move to JS is dynamic typing, getting rid of that administrative pain and now being able to create stuff much faster. Even in large JS apps I hardly ever h
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by black-alert 7y ago
In some way our brains doesn't seem to be wired for getting rich and famous, most people go very wrong. Being a good and intelligent human being is very different from having just a lot of money and luck.
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by black-alert 7y ago
> People who want to write "beautiful code" are not role models, don't listen to them. They are vain and not productive. Your thoughts seem to be very subjective. I hope you don't write your code as naive as you wrote
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by black-alert 7y ago
I bought the latest version of the MBP with the 'fixed' keyboard last year September. I have sold it 2 months later because one of the keys didn't work well anymore, I had to push that key hard for it to respond. It is amazin
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by black-alert 8y ago
The paradox is that the school institution is actually very dumb and stupid where it should be the smartest thing out there.
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by black-alert 8y ago
> Why don't we have more : "We tried it, it is the worst, especially for products which lifespan is more than two months" Because that last sentence is just rubbish, CSS in JS is great. I'm using it for large projects
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by black-alert 8y ago
Redux, made for very large scale applications. Most companies shouldn't use redux at all, just as Dan Abramov said several times that you probably don't need it. For unknown reasons most front-end developers don't wanna hear
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by black-alert 8y ago
you mean Python and Ruby like languages are unmaintainable and therefore deprecated? I rarely have a problem with maintainability in JS because of types, but I do have problems with poor constructs, poor readability, dependency issues and s