Programming blogs

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Post by jsnell » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 11:16 AM UTC

Re: Programming blogs

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Post by devy » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 5:23 PM UTC

I love Gary Bernhardt's writings, screencasts and lightning talks and his sense of humor, especially this one[1]. But unfortunately, some JavaScript developers might feel it offensive.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Re: Programming blogs

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Post by henrik_w » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 5:30 PM UTC

I only recently found Dan Luu's blog (from the excellent Google SRE book review and the "We only hire the trendiest" posts), and really like it.

Of the listed blogs, I have previously read Steve Yegge, Eli Bendersky and Yossi Kreinin - all three fantastic. I'll have fun going through the rest in the list.

Re: Programming blogs

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Post by Ace17 » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 5:57 PM UTC

devy wrote: post #2

I love Gary Bernhardt's writings, screencasts and lightning talks and his sense of humor, especially this one[1]. But unfortunately, some JavaScript developers might feel it offensive. [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

The one you linked is a must-watch!

Re: Programming blogs

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Post by psisous » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 6:10 PM UTC

obligatory http://blog.codinghorror.com/ mention

Re: Programming blogs

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Post by gjolund » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 6:27 PM UTC

devy wrote: post #2

I love Gary Bernhardt's writings, screencasts and lightning talks and his sense of humor, especially this one[1]. But unfortunately, some JavaScript developers might feel it offensive. [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

I love that video.

There is nothing offensive in the video, I think he does a pretty good job explaining how bat shit ridiculous javascript is.

If you are writing js professionally and haven't already come to terms with that and the existential crisis it entails... you're gonna have a bad time.

Re: Programming blogs

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Post by Ace17 » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 6:37 PM UTC

Uncle Bob anyone?

http://blog.cleancoder.com/

Re: Programming blogs

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Post by MIKarlsen » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 6:50 PM UTC

gjolund wrote: post #6

devy wrote: post #2

I love Gary Bernhardt's writings, screencasts and lightning talks and his sense of humor, especially this one[1]. But unfortunately, some JavaScript developers might feel it offensive. [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

I love that video. There is nothing offensive in the video, I think he does a pretty good job explaining how bat shit ridiculous javascript is. If you are writing js professionally and haven't already come to terms with that and the existential crisis it entails... you're gonna have a bad time.

I know I shouldn't be turned off by this, but I so am. And I'm starting to dislike the dev-community more and more for each day I try to learn programming myself. Elitism at its worst.

I guess it started a few years back when I started an introductory programming-class at university where I was supposed to learn Java. I had already tried some light-weight languages like HTML and CSS and felt comfortable modding Wordpress-solutions. At the time, I studied a non-tech minor, and worked at an it-consultancy with a bunch of guys roughly my age. We were pretty good friends, but I strongly remember how they ridiculed Java as being old and outdated, and how I was wasting my time trying to learn more than the course expected of me. And it actually turned me off a lot, mainly because I thought these guys knew what they were talking about.

About a year ago, I tried my way with python for web-scraping and some light scripting, but ran into the same ridicule by a co-worker where I had my internship.

This february I finished my liberal arts'ish IT-master degree, and decided that I needed to learn how to do some code in order to get better at my job, and understanding it and tech in general.

This time, I'm focussing on FreeCodeCamp, and I'm dedicated to learn Javascript and front-end development. Because I've realized that there will always be people who trash-talk other languages, and I've learned that no languages are better or worse than others. I just think it's so frustrating asking for advice online when you run into people who fanatically defend one coding-language as "the only one" and trash talk everything else.

So fuck the haters - I'm learning Javascript, and it's gonna help me build some super cool apps that will help a lot of people!

Re: Programming blogs

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Post by afarrell » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC

> a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM rather than go to bed leaving code with a bug in it.

Question for other folks here: In your experience, does staying up until 4:00AM tend to lead to you being more or less productive in the long term?

Re: Programming blogs

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Post by emodendroket » Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 6:56 PM UTC

gjolund wrote: post #6

devy wrote: post #2

I love Gary Bernhardt's writings, screencasts and lightning talks and his sense of humor, especially this one[1]. But unfortunately, some JavaScript developers might feel it offensive. [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

I love that video. There is nothing offensive in the video, I think he does a pretty good job explaining how bat shit ridiculous javascript is. If you are writing js professionally and haven't already come to terms with that and the existential crisis it entails... you're gonna have a bad time.

Realistically, if you decide you are going to design a language where types are always coerced to perform operations instead of stopping execution when mismatched types are encountered, the choices JavaScript makes are pretty sensible.