I was hacking scripts and web shit together in perl, python and php for many years before learning C, and just a couple months learning C/C++ made me understand so many more basic concepts than all previous years experiences combined.
Nah, our generation had to tinker with shit to get it working. Kids these days have it easy, which is good from a user perspective, but fails to train them how any of it actually works at a deeper level.
No one has to install a device driver anymore.
It’s a beginners book filled with a mix of bad and good advice, which takes considerable experience to separate the two. Those who can point out all the bad advice already don’t need the book, and newer developers will pick up absolutely atrocious coding advice. There’s simply better books that target beginners better, like The Pragmatic Programmer.
So when you are on-boarding junior devs that have bought into the clean code/SOLID dogma, you’re spending several months beating all their terrible coding habits out of them.
apt remove sudo
sudo is not installed on several distributions by default, so hardly surprising it’s not there or that you can remove it.
Well yeah, 100% of programming errors are programmers fault.
Most can’t, but that’s why clandestine cyber-intelligence firms like NSO group exist.
Meanwhile PHP quietly runs 80% of the internet by being used for WordPress.
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
Always remember, the silicon valley ethos of “break things” wasn’t about their applications, it was about breaking industry, society, laws and your ability to oversee or regulate them.
the tests are now larger than the thing itself
Is such a weird complaint. You should aim for your codebase to be as small, simple and readable as possible, while your tests should be a specification that guarantees behavior is consistent between refactors. When you add behavior, you add tests, when you remove a behavior, you delete tests.
The size of either is independent of eachother. Small code bases that provide lots of features should be simple to read, but with a lot of tests.
Like a fungus you learn to live with
Apparently every code base I’ve ever worked on was run through this.
I never saw that, that’s legitimately funny. I’d love to be in the room when that feature was designed, and the reaction of the developer it was handed too.
I don’t know if the game is the best example of busineses making top-down design decisions, since that game was an obvious scam from the start.
C# will definitely spoil Java for you. Even modern Java, there’s just no going back from the .Net ecosystem without feeling like you’re timetraveling 10 years.
Remember when people were calling this dummy the “real life Tony Stark”? Lol.
Yes, I couldn’t recommend htmx highly enough.
Web & mobile development took a wrong tern 10 million miles back, and no one wants to turn the car around and admit it.
Yes, and the people directly contributing to the project have legitimate gripes. Although, the parable of dhh is if you get on an asshole scorpions back, don’t be surprised if you get stung. Dudes been an unreasonable prick for nearly 20 years now.
My comments directed at the manufactured outrage from the tooling zealots incapable of having a mature conversation. Or even accept a difference of opinion. The number of comments that start with, "never heard of Turbo, but let me weigh in on why you’re an idiot for not liking Typescript. " is very telling…
I took a compiler course focused on optimization and porting. So I worked with x86 and ARM. There’s very little reason in modern computing to write assembly by hand, but it’s still useful to be able to read and understand.