craigmcnamara

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by craigmcnamara 9y ago
You just described my exact feelings and stack.
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by craigmcnamara 9y ago
I admit that for classroom exercises the package manager isn't a huge draw, but when someone learns some JS basics and they want to try to make a real thing, the fact they don't have to move to a new ecosystem to get libraries kee
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by craigmcnamara 9y ago
It's pretty far from that now. It's a modern multi-paradigm language with a package manager, module system and enormous community. It's a pretty solid language for teaching in my opinion.
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by craigmcnamara 10y ago
It's not Ruby if it doesn't run Rails.
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by craigmcnamara 10y ago
Software is made by other people in other places too!
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by craigmcnamara 10y ago
Nailed it!
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by craigmcnamara 10y ago
I'd wonder why they're pressuring you to move to PHP. I've written PHP in the past, and recently started maintaining a site in PHP through a company acquisition. Normally I prefer Ruby on Rails and have used it since Rails v1
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by craigmcnamara 10y ago
Plenty of things do, until they don't. The, "well, we're stuck with it" philosophy is strong in the PHP community and I hate it.
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by craigmcnamara 10y ago
Helix was just announced at Rails Conf 2016, so it's definitely not abandoned.
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by craigmcnamara 10y ago
It's generally a bad idea to develop with a copy of your production DB. This is how emails accidentally get sent from staging servers to real people and how sensitive information finds itself in insecure places. I didn't see any p
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
`git blame SuperImportantCodeFile2` => Fired
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
So the plus side is their next gen fighter is shit too?
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
I've always viewed full stack(integration test with JS execution) as the best way to start testing an app with no test, or to flesh out an idea without committing too much to an implementation. As the app develops, unit tests are added
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
JRuby has never been fast to boot, but after boot it's very fast to execute.
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
>> Management: "There's too much risk, even if I can't explain why." This sums up one of my major frustrations of being a programmer for the Air Force Research Lab(AFRL). You have branch and division managers that
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
I see you didn't like my zinger. I have a pistol permit, but I don't see any need to carry a gun. It's just not something I worry about.
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
Isn't a handgun just a gun made to make assaulting another human easier?
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
PHP isn't just bad tooling, it's a bad attitude, like your attitude. I've said that I dislike the PHP experience for many valid reason and you question my competence, experience and validity of my experiences with PHP. I look
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
I've worked in C++, Java, Ruby and PHP. I'm aware of what PHP has to offer and compared to the tooling in other languages PHP is anemic at best and a fractal of bad design at worst. You're getting very tribal and Ad-hominem i
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
The project I mentioned is a legacy codebase that needs lots of work to even get it to consistently raise exceptions. Many places things happen trigger_error is used, which is not caught by Honeybadger(basically the same as Airbrake) and co
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
So it's a weak copy of Capistrano 2, but 10 years late and written in PHP? I'm confused, what is the benefit of copying an established software package. You'd be better served using the Capistrano 3 for complicated deploys an
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
Can vs Should. While PHP is turing complete, there are much better toolkits for the jobs you described.
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
Um, I'm working on a PHP codebase at the moment. I hate the PHP standard library. It's awful and awkward, but my job is to make shit work, so I do, even if I hate every minute of it.
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by craigmcnamara 11y ago
My brothers and I we're in the scouts and my dad was a den leader. In pinewood derby season we would design the cars how we want, rasp, sand and paint them until they looked perfect to us, scouts, not parents. When that was done, my da
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by craigmcnamara 14y ago
The tech guys don't fill that crap out, they hire lackeys to push the paper. The DoD is an elaborate scam to employ secretaries.