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by deckard1 6y ago
Look no further than Docker, which is the tech equivalent of giving up on Earth and moving everyone to Mars because we've screwed up so bad. We transpile one version of JavaScript to another and our stack requires webpack now. Remember
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You're exceedingly lucky if the developers you work with these days are aware of the differences between shallow and deep copy, or how object references work. This is where I make the case for having knowledge of asm/C/C++. T
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If you dive into the history of Stanley's woodworking hand planes, you'll see a 140 year history of bamboozlement going on. A sort of tug-of-war between consumers valuing quality and Stanley cheapening out on designs. You have the
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yep, was going to say that this is probably the real source behind the mystery. Early OS X is basically NeXT when Jobs came back to Apple. Doom was developed on NeXT, so id Software and Carmack already had a history of using BSD. They also
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This comes up a lot on the teams I've worked on. But ultimately, the entire reason you have to go to standup and remind people to do their job is because they are not doing their job. It's surprising the number of people that can&
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> to surface unknown unknowns That may be true. But that's also a good way to turn a 10 minute standup into an hour long spitballing session. Nearly every blocker or unknown that I've encountered could have been better handled
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> Care about your work. Care about your project. I think this is the crux of many problems plaguing software development today. Unless you're at a brand-spanking-new startup or have been handed the keys to an exciting greenfield pro
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These days Google's core value appears to be a Kafkaesque hypocrisy. They promote efficient websites to increase ranking with their search algorithm, while operating ad services that bog websites down. Not to mention the whole AMP busi
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I don't get the obsession with Musk on HN and elsewhere. The man is a certified loon. From falsely claiming the rescue diver that helped free the people from the cave in Thailand a "child rapist" to saying he was taking Tesla
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> A lot of reacts's quirks are a result of JS's poor notion of equality. God, yes. And I'm amazed everyday to run into senior engineers that do not understand how equality works in JS. People are also easily confused if th
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> it's uncommon that I want more than 100 items I believe the discussion is GUI items, not what you might consider data items. Look at this current Hacker News page. Each comment, depending on how fine-grained you're counting
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Hooks elucidate everything I've felt wrong about React, but have not been able to put my finger on it until recently. Hooks reveal two major things with React: 1) React developers did not understand the component paradigm that they ori
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> highly performant API that outperformed REST at scale -- it's called SQL You are conflating many disparate things here. SQL is a language (DSL) for accessing data. REST is a protocol and a data transport method (one could surmise
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> I can speak by experience that the tech lead is often not the most technically proficient on the team. In my experience, this is mostly true. I've worked with some tech leads that had really average skills, at best. > They are
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I think the reason no one uses Prolog is simply because generalized backtracking problems (i.e. the problems you would use Prolog for) are too computationally expensive and infrequent enough that: a) You would never train staff or hire expe
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> Comparing GraphQL to REST is apples to oranges Just because you say that, doesn't make it true. > most of those endpoints load more data than they need GraphQL proponents seem to forget query parameters exist. It has never be
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It's a bit worse than that, even. Instead of the abuse of semantic elements, you don't have semantic elements at all. It's a giant mess of div tags. We've 100% given up on accessibility on the web. We've also thro
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All of that rings true to me. Some will take issue with difficulty (From Software games are still difficult, for example), or balance or whatever. But generally all these rules apply. The last bit of "magic" I felt was World of Wa
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> It seems like such a guide would almost be an inversion of some of the principles in this guide: in troll games, you tend to learn only by dying; the puzzles always require things you forgot in the previous room, and you can’t go back
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yeah, this has been my experience over the past few months. Luckily I'm only on the fence as to whether I want to switch jobs right now. I've been very take-it-or-leave it. > always tell them politely what it would take to insp
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Maybe look in your node_modules folder sometime, eh? Or the Linux kernel. The whole world runs their critical infrastructure on volunteer work.
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We've been doing fine here in reality, where most Linux distros, Perl's CPAN, Python's PyPi, RubyGems, etc. are all run by volunteers and donations. There is nothing special about NPM that requires it to be owned by a for-pro
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Perl has never been non-mainstream. It's possible the average age of HN is too young to be aware of this today, but Perl powered the web during the 1990s and early 2000s. There are plenty of legacy Perl code bases out there, even ones
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> (1 keeps functions and data in separate namespaces; 2 puts everything in a single namespace). Many consider Lisp-2 an improvement over Lisp-1, in that it eliminates complexity and improves consistency and uniformity of behavior. No, th
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> This is why we need competent administrators running things The GOP has a conflict of interest here. They don't want to give evidence that government can work. Their goal is to break government and then go "see, government do
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Frameworks like React aren't the real headache today, for me at least. It's all the machinery of web development. Webpack, babel, polyfills, various CSS transforms and ways to utilize CSS (sass, less, CSS modules, CSS inline, the
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GraphQL is mediocre. It's luke-warm mashed potatoes from a chain diner. Having used it for a number of years now, I still don't know why people recommend it beyond other people recommending it. Out of the box, it comes with no bat
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I can't imagine a world where exes get a say in my future dating prospects, positive or negative. Jesus christ HN. Not everything is a datapoint to be gamified and exploited.
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non sequitur. No one mentioned security, nor do any elementary data structures concern themselves with such higher level things. If you're allowing unlimited untrusted data to control internal data structures, you're going to have

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