pandesal

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by pandesal 4y ago
> A central point of REST is that any resource (e.g., user) can support an unlimited number of different representations. This isn't just true on the level of, say, XML vs. JSON but also formats which embed and do not embed subordin
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by pandesal 4y ago
You can definitely shape the data in any way you want with REST. You can find parallels with GraphQL features and REST and you can argue for either way because its 1:1 comparison. Comparing technologies requires looking both at a 1:1 level
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by pandesal 4y ago
GraphQL APIs that are public will usually have a less than optimal dev experience because it has to consider general and unknown use cases. GraphQL shines when you control the API and the frontends that consume it. This is mostly because th
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by pandesal 4y ago
Then that's a problem with the schema implementation and not necessarily a fault of GraphQL. The people implementing a GraphQL schema should be working very closely with the people working on the frontend and put a lot of importance on
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by pandesal 4y ago
Not going to lie, before I visited the site, I was hoping it was a hot take article about why Ruby on Rails now suck and people should stop using it and migrate off of it. I was ready for the comment section.
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by pandesal 5y ago
I don't get how "layers and layers of abstraction/concepts that are hard to grasp for a newcomer" is your critique here? The literal entirety of tech is layers and layers of abstraction. Also, just because the improvemen
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by pandesal 5y ago
You don't need something like React for building rich GUI today but once you have a sufficiently large codebase and a large team of developers, you're going to end up building inferior in-house versions of libraries/framework
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by pandesal 5y ago
Why?
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by pandesal 5y ago
Of course. I didn't say Next.js solves the complexity of building a massive product, no framework will prevent complexity at scale. That's my point since this thread seems to put Rails on a pedestal like it was the main thing maki
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by pandesal 5y ago
Over-engineering is not exclusive to the JS world. It's just in the spotlight nowadays. Rails also just hides its magic well because of Ruby and most experienced devs are already used to the Rails magic so its simpler compared to the n
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by pandesal 5y ago
Eh. Perhaps you're looking through rose colored glasses on the days of Rails dominance? I've worked at multiple companies using Rails and not one was simple. Especially when you have 100+ engineers working on different aspects of
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by pandesal 5y ago
Your advice is pretty good but it only really applies to junior level roles. If you’re applying for mid level up and the only relevant experience you have for the role is a github profile with side projects, thats not going be enough to get
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by pandesal 5y ago
Not a single interview? That’s got to be a incredible amount bad luck because it’s a pretty hot market right now for SWE. Like I’m a high school dropout who also doesn’t have an active online portfolio and I currently work as a SWE at a tec
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by pandesal 6y ago
Interesting tone of discussions happening in here compared to the same post in reddit.com/r/programming. The comments in reddit seem to be geared toward how this isn’t a replacement of a CS degree with a hint of elitism. I mean, I
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by pandesal 6y ago
Isn't this the same company whose CEO said he wouldn't hire anybody with a resume that had "short stints"
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by pandesal 6y ago
Sure, but that’s a terrible experience. Especially for a language marketing itself as simple. And just because you can “go-to-definition” to see where the dep is stored, it doesn’t answer questions like does every project dependency get sto
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by pandesal 6y ago
IMO I think that section in the docs is missing quite a bit of things when it comes to module resolution. I had the same issue when learning Go. It was quite confusing trying to figure out the node_modules(JavaScript) or _deps(Elixir) Go eq
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by pandesal 6y ago
Jesus christ that background is distracting.
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by pandesal 6y ago
Wow. What a very diverse set of founders
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by pandesal 6y ago
Great read. HN and reddit comments like the post title always irks me whenever a product is talked about in here or in reddit.