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by gregjor 2y ago
You know of a way to quantify and measure “productivity” of programmers? Of code? Programmers make claims about productivity and throw the word around, like we all understand what it means.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Right, that’s my point. We only disagree about what “correct tooling” means. Since PHP and Go have everything needed I prefer not adding more abstractions and dependencies, for less code, fewer black boxes, and fewer external dependencies.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Try to understand the difference between not using a framework and inventing your own framework. No one in this thread advocated writing their own framework. I originally pointed out that PHP and Go include everything you need to write web
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by gregjor 2y ago
Semi-skilled means knowing a framework to some degree, but struggling with the language the framework is written in . Nothing to do with C++ or embedded -- I clearly contrasted Laravel et al. with PHP, and Goravel with Go. Anyone who prefe
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by gregjor 2y ago
Because they only know how to program with a framework. Take off the training wheels and learn the language and libraries.
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by gregjor 2y ago
If you know the language and libraries you can figure out any framework code, whether Laravel or some "weird homemade" thing. If you only know a framework then you have limited your options and job opportunities. And you stay in t
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by gregjor 2y ago
ORM: don't need, I can write SQL. Prepared statements sufficient to prevent SQL injection. Both PHP and Go have good database abstraction libraries. Sockets: Don't use but if I did I wouldn't need a framework. SPA: I don&#x27
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by gregjor 2y ago
Frameworks do give some early traction, as I mentioned. And lots of PHP devs really only know Laravel, a shame because eventually they will have to debug it or work around limitations. I meant to make the point that frameworks come with a c
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by gregjor 2y ago
Discussed before on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34550418 I Googled "github email alias" and found that link and some others reporting the same thing.
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by gregjor 2y ago
You don't like how Go implements error handling. We get it. Lots of people complain about that. Use a "proper" language more to your liking. Go's designers have explained their decisions many times, I won't repeat t
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by gregjor 2y ago
If you have experience finding, screening, vetting, hiring, and managing a team of web developers you go about hiring them like everyone else: putting up job ads, maybe engaging a recruiter. If you don't have that experience you engage
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by gregjor 2y ago
Both PHP and Go come with everything you need to build web applications in the standard libraries. I have never seen the need for a framework on top of PHP, or Go, and I have worked with a lot of web code in both languages. When I have to w
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by gregjor 2y ago
I didn't look at the OP or know their history, so I took the question at face value. I don't see the point in questioning if someone wears AirPods as hearing aids, or just pretends to, or wears them for some other reason. As an ol
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by gregjor 2y ago
That doesn’t address why anyone would specifically care if someone needed AirPods as hearing aids. People wearing AirPods bother you? I would have more concern about the malfunctioning elevators. You can’t change what other people do, proba
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by gregjor 2y ago
Companies that want to sponsor visas will advertise and recruit in your country. In the current US tech job market I don’t expect many companies will sponsor directly because they have to at least appear to have no domestic candidates first
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have elderly and technically unsophisticated parents and family members. I tell them to assume all emails, messages, phone calls come from scammers unless they initiated the conversation. If they get a message or call from someone claim
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by gregjor 2y ago
Why on earth would you care about why other people wear Airpods?
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by gregjor 2y ago
Ad. Claims for medical products should have evidence, not just fluff.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Suggest starting here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/seo-s... SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, so SEO means the process of optimizing a web site for better discovery by sear
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by gregjor 2y ago
HN can't have the qualities "relevant" or "useful." Those words describe individual and subjective judgments of the site's content. Since HN consists of an ever-growing pile of loosely-related articles and link
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by gregjor 2y ago
But I would call him productive, writing several books and many scientific papers.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I don’t think so. I can touch-type but I have worked with many excellent programmers who can’t. Consider Stephen Hawking as an extreme example. Productive? Since we don’t have a way to measure “being productive” in an objective or meaningfu
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by gregjor 2y ago
Maybe here in the “show hn” subset. Github repos, though you’d have to do a lot of digging. “Cool” and “underrated” describe subjective judgments, not inherent properties of projects or people.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Where can I place a bet on which mission happens as planned, and which creates more debris fields?
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by gregjor 2y ago
You interpret Go using a different pattern for error handling as a criticism of or challenge to exceptions. Consider that languages can take different approaches, without having to get into “best” or “worse.” Every approach to error handlin
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by gregjor 2y ago
Rust hype seems to have got ahead of language maturity and stability. Most new languages get a period of attention and experimenting but eventually the rubber has to hit the road. In the case of Rust I think it can only attract senior devs
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by gregjor 2y ago
Stock pump desperately needed! Starship has not achieved low earth orbit or the necessary refueling yet, so I’m not holding my breath (again) for this new prediction he pulled out of wherever.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Over my 45+ years programming I’d guess about 25% of my time got spent on code that never went live. Sometimes the project got scrapped during development and started over with new requirements or tools. Of the remainder more than half of t
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by gregjor 2y ago
It would surprise me to find a company going through so much trouble with interviews if they didn’t intend to hire. Big waste of their time and resources, and for what purpose? More likely: in this market they got overwhelmed with too many
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by gregjor 2y ago
> I don't think anybody seriously considerd either "Indonesian" nor "Brazillian" to be racial categories or groupings. I hope not. That wasn’t the point I meant to make. The thread I replied in started with tryin

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