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by jmfldn 5y ago
It's not in decline imho, it has settled as middle ranking language in terms of popularity and is v popular in its niche. It depends where you are of course but in London it's used in loads of places from major corporations to sta
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by jmfldn 5y ago
It does require discipline, or at least one person on the team who can set a style guide for the newcomers to follow, this is true.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I hear this a lot about Scala, and I am a Scala dev so maybe I'm biased, but I don't get the difficulty angle particularly. I'm in no way exceptional as a programmer or IQ-wise but I picked up Scala easily as part of my first
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Hmm yes I guess you might be right given Android. It's a shame in a way that Kotlin was invented as Scala could have filled the niche too imho but that ship has sailed. It's too similar to both Java and Scala and doesn't real
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by jmfldn 5y ago
This is great not unfortunate. If Java improves because of Scala and Kotlin then so much the better, this is how languages evolve. If it really does evolve to remove the need for a better Java then it would be nice if people switched away f
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Agree. We desperately need something like Tim Berners Lee's Solid. A way for us to take control from the centralised data silos owned by big tech. I know its almost mission impossible to turn the tide, but if the alternative is giving
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by jmfldn 5y ago
When I read articles like this I experience a mini existential crisis that we could be heading to some very dark places technologically. I don't need to go into the reasons why it's bad. For anyone who's aware of the last 15
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Monads are chainable containers for a computation. The container represents some sort of "effect" implicit to the computation ie asyncrony, optionality etc. This is not technically 'correct', monad explanations are alway
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I would go further. Using monads, or any functional programming concept that you'll encounter in the wild, requires zero category theory. I would actively warn anyone against learning category theory for day-to-day use of FP. Learn it
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by jmfldn 5y ago
" The number of new developers isn't much higher today than it was already in the 90s" All the data suggests this is wrong by any order of magnitude. The web was an absolute game changer.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Why does it scare you?
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by jmfldn 5y ago
This comes up regularly here and I always feel that I need to point out the elephant in the room each time. From a previous post... "The fact that most engineers are young is much more to do with the numbers in the profession doubling
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Best practices and receieved wisdom can be useful but only when interpreted by someone with a degree of wisdom and judgement. As ever, the answer to whether you should do A or B is 'it depends'. Applying a best practice blindly is
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Totally agree. I read online still but I read a "daily edition" which is obviously static. I also read a news weekly on a tablet. I could read the paper versions but for me, having the digital version happens to be more convenient
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Trut, that helps. However, even medium sized companies are often spread across multiple cities and timezones so it only helps to an extent. Having a single point of failure for literally everything seems to be a pretty large elephant in the
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Surely they need easy comms fallback options that are independent of their own tech / infra. Even if they were on site this would still be pretty terrible to have everything so coupled right?
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Seem like a massive overreaction. Keep the sys admins on-site to manage your on prem gear but they should have been doing that anyway?! Surely when you're running your own servers for anything of any scale you need actual people nearby
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Employees given three months to return to Facebook office(techradar.com)
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Its been said that this psychopathic behaviour is an emergent property of many corporations and emerges due to the nature of their very legal structure. In other word, the people may be fine but the outcomes can turn out not to be. See...
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by jmfldn 5y ago
True, but it might not be a zero-sum argument. I think the point I'm making might not explain ageism in it's entirity but I feel it's a factor. Time will tell I guess.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I feel like this comes up a lot and it's something I think / worry about as a developer at the 'old' age of 40. I posted this comment below on a similar thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282947
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Social media and messenger communication should be based on common protocols allowing different networks and services to be connected. I should be able to message you on your application from my different application because neither are wal
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Yet another reason to not over-rely on a few big tech companies for the majority of the planet's communication. Forget concerns about competition, monopolies and so on for now (as important as they are), what we want are many social ne
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by jmfldn 5y ago
FP programmer here and I agree insofar as ecosystem matters a lot and you want to be able to onboard juniors easily and on. To that end a pure FP language is often not the best choice, especially in lowering the learning curve. However it c
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Speaking as a meditation practitioner, I don't think you deserve downvotes but I don't think it's zero sum either. Mindfulness should not be used to salve problems whose root cause is exploitation. I'm a proponent of bei
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by jmfldn 5y ago
I agree with a lot of this. I like my job, I don't want to be cynically detached from it, but it IS just a job. So much of this so-called hustle culture is a product of us all internalising the values of our exploitative economic syste
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Best tech blog on the web. She's awesome.
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Ha, yes OK that sounds a bit contradictory so let me clarify. Firstly learning ANY new paradigm is inherently brain bending. By definition right? If you didn't know logic programming or oop you'd have to bend that brain. Secondly,
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by jmfldn 5y ago
"Apparently it works well and is "intuitive" for some people. I think the first thing we should do is recognize the amount of neurodivergence amongst programmers." Yep that's it! It suits my brain quite well but I t
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Functional programmer here. It's a different way of thinking is all, I don't see it as solving puzzles exactly. It's unfortunate if people see it as being about complexity or being clever. Done well, it should be the opposite

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