joelbluminator

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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Why the downvoting? You somehow upset the typed mob I guess...
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
> but above all, a debugger one can integrate with docker and IDE. Can you expand? We have a kubernetes setup at work and I can't do binding.pry locally to get a breakpoint! (the containers aren't running on the developer&#x27
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Pepsico, Toyota ...come on now that's weak. They're not even IT companies let alone Tech. Whatsapp is running on a fork of Erlang afaik , not Elixir. Look I'm not saying no one is using Elixir, I'm just saying there&#x27
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Sorry that really doesn't add up to what I see when I look at job boards, Elixir has really poor numbers. The Ruby guys who wanted to jump ship to Elixir already did so a few years ago (some of them will continue to jump ship from Elix
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
> if anything I'd argue that NOT tying yourself to a single framework is what makes you grow into a senior developer I disagree. A lot of this discussion is about semantics - what do we mean when we say senior developer? for FAANG
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
C, Java, Javascript, Ruby, PHP, Python, all these languages are 30-50 years old. I don't see any of them fading away the coming 20 years from now (you might argue about Ruby since it's much smaller, but it has a very strong commun
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Are you happy with the way things are going for Elixir? It seemed to me like the Elixir community was hoping for it to become the next Ruby and I don't see that happening anymore. It will have to settle for being a well respected but o
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
> Polyglot is the future, and people are already adapting Yes, right. I like how you can read into the future. Let's see what happens 10-20 years from now, things tend to change. But even if we look at how things are now, plenty of
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Out of date how? Tons of people write pure javascript and not typescript. They are all not as productive as you?
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Ruby is NOT becoming static. It will just have tools like Sorbet or rbs files. The community will for sure stay mostly in dynamic programming. The huge orgs like Shopify or Stripe who want more strictness will now be able to do it in their
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
> Do all of these make it faster than PHP? We'll need to look at it a year or two from now and compare oranges to oranges; the new Ruby JIT (YJIT) is optimized for real world web apps, not for some artificial fibonacci benchmark. Sh
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Maybe still. But I'm pretty sure 5-10 years from now PHP devs will be in demand since everyone is moving to Node/Go/Other Hype.
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Shopify is Rails actually. I think Magento and Prestashop are PHP
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
> Hey presto, you have a functioning web shop, business website, charity home page, or whatever other thing you want. If we're talking about simple templates to open a store or a simple landing page there are so many no-code options
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Hack isn't PHP anymore...
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Best since everyone is thinking along the same lines Javascript/Python/Go developers are quickly becoming a commodity; e.g there are millions or tens of millions of developers who learn them as their 1st language (many of them are
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
I am sometimes uncomfortable developing features which I feel arent 100% kosher. For most users they understand what they are buying, but there is a certain segment (lets say 1 in 5) who dont. As the company needs to grow at all costs u can
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Some of them are indeed kind of victims. There are dirt poor people living there who are called white trash. Sounds like a victim to me.
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Seems to me there is a correlation between cultural homogenity and less societal problems. He is not 100% wrong. Is it racist to point out the truth?
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
"Also, many big companies are using Elixir within their tech stacks such as Pinterest, Moz, The Financial Times, Toyota Connected, PepsiCo, and Bleacher Report." Jeez really Toyota Connected AND PepsiCo? Wow Elixir is exploding!!
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
So Anonymous Ruby blocks act like (or are) Procs (which return from the parent method), not like lambdas, would you say that?
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Yes this is mostly it. Some of us just have a different world experience and are wired differently; the thing with engineers is that they don't like subjectivity - they need absolute answers, but it's really like debating who is b
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Are you using a good IDE? With Rubymine (which indexes all of your gems) this is a much less big a deal.
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
That's a very short duration evolutionarily speaking. We're talking maybe 10K years...we exist as humans how long - a million years?
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
I think from an evolutionary perspective most of us aren't wired for long focused mental work, especially not after studying/working the whole day already (that's why most side projects fail). It had very little evolutionary
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
Ruby does imo. Go looks incomprehensible to me and I can't stand its lack of expressiveness. This is all a matter of opinion, to you Go wins because you know Go well or like Go better, to me vice versa. There is no objective truth here
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
It doesn't. Why not advocate for the removal of settlements then? Do you advocate for China's destruction because they put settlements in Tibet? The settlements were a grave error imo, Israel already proved it can and will dismant
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
What was the most helpful thing u did? mock interviews? books?
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
> In real life there's still going to be pressure to come up with an answer Like how? Honestly. What answer are you immediately looking for if there's a bug? You're looking for a fix, not an answer. And it takes time, a bu
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by joelbluminator 5y ago
> I've probably disclosed more than is wise, given that I'm actively looking for work right now, but I'm kind of exhausted of hiding myself, and any hiring manager whose snooping my HN account is sure to find even better r

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