DEI hiring mandates destroy teams.
Yup this is a dumb one. Dei != mandates or quotas
Ask HN: What's your most unpopular dev opinion?
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#22TypeScript is too much work for not enough reward.
Disagree. Try working on a large project with 3-4+ engineers and you'd come round to the conventional wisdom of TS. But yeah, TS is more a developer tool than a language anyways.
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#23Developers are terrible at writing software that solve business problems.
Developers are better at writing software the solves problems for other developers
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#24TypeScript is too much work for not enough reward.
Typescript is a neat idea running atop a cursed language (JS) Using Go has been more fun. Where fun means less surprises.
I like go a lot. Not just for the lack of surprises but having go-fmt alone
helps avoid a lot of bike shedding that limits extraneous stress.
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#25My programming font. It’s proportional and uppercase letters have a 1/3 of a space of left padding. Proportional because they are faster to read in general, and the padding makes reading camel-case faster as well. https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel
Yeah. You're a unicorn. That font hurt my eyes and twitched something in my brain. I often experience something painful in my brain and eyes whenever I switch fonts and theme.
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#26You should be able to prototype with your whole codebase.
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#27Law penalties on spam / scamming should 10x harsher.
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#28very few of us are engineers or trained to think like one. most of us a tradespeople who know how to make digital things.
as a trade we have gotten lazy and complacent. many of us have figured out how to look the other way while making software that does terrible, terrible things.
we deserve to have our trade destroyed by LLMs.
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#29Most "Software Engineers" AREN'T ACTUALLY ENGINEERS... it's illegal in many states to use that title if you're not licensed with the state's Professional Engineering Board.
If you haven't taken professional engineering exams, and passed, you're not an Engineer.
STOP IT!
Re: Ask HN: What's your most unpopular dev opinion?
#30Most "Software Engineers" AREN'T ACTUALLY ENGINEERS ... it's illegal in many states to use that title if you're not licensed with the state's Professional Engineering Board. If you haven't taken professional engineering exams, and passed, you're not an Engineer. STOP IT!
Upvoted because I disagree with this (I presume your downvoters also disagree).
My degree course actually had the option of converting to a BEng from a BSc if you so chose once you'd done your industry year.