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I'd love to work for this engineering team. Their tech blog and github is full of interesting projects.
the BBC sounds like it has a really good tech team too. wonder what it is about newspapers that leads to this sort of tech culture.
I worked on the Graun’s website/publishing backend in the late 90’s. Lots of Tcl/Tk.
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Not all languages are created equal. While yes a developer with years of experience in python may have lots of transferable skills to other languages, my team arent going to hire someone for a mid level/senior position without a good knowledge of c++
C++ is somewhat of an outlier due to the sheer size of the spec(and getting bigger all the time). Not everyone will use the same subset of features either, which complicates things. That said, aren't you using C++ as a proxy for other needed skills though? Many Python programmers are not exposed to concepts like vtables, or they do not know how a linker works(or why it is even needed). Heck, many won't have done manu…
Funny that you mention linkers, as they’re a bit of a minefield. Lots of the behaviour of linkers is platform (and implementation) dependent, I.e. are you building a shared library or an exe on windows or linux, and there are different gotchas for all of them. We wouldn’t expect people to know al of those things, but it definitely helps when it comes up, and you don’t have the same problem (ODR violations come to mibd) in many other languages...
Cool, but it's yet another case of re-engineering the same thing. (edit: its not entirely new). Splitting editors into an abstracted structure for finer control over data and presentation is something that's been done for a decade now in various text editors. Medium and Basecamp started similar projects and there's Mobiledoc which is trying to standardize the format. It'd be nice if all this effort focused on a singl…
Going with your own format has some advantages, but using a well known popular format also has advantages. I did look into ProseMirrors and other editors but due to the formatting I ended up making my own. Where I've gone the painful route of having HTML nodes instead of a JSON tree. My reasoning is that I always want to end up with HTML anyway, and this also allows switching back and forth between editing HTML and W…
This isn't even a test editor. It's closer to a web publishing tool. The article also didn't talk about the normal text editor challenges like the way the text is stored in memory and modified.
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In most hiring settings this isn't true though. Language-specific skills actually do matter, for all but entry-level positions at massive tech companies. It's not like my 3 years of experience in Ruby is immediately translatable to Java/Python/whatever. Could I get up to speed in those languages in due time? Sure. But if you were on a hiring committee, hiring for a team that works mostly with Java (or whatever) would…
Language-specific skills actually do matter, for all but entry-level positions at massive tech companies. Absolutely, which is why I didn't stop at "I am a developer". That "who is good at Python" bit is definitely important. However , seeing yourself as a "Python developer" rather than "a developer who is good at Python" makes it look like you see every problem as something you'll solve using Python. That's bad. Tha…
If a company didn't hire me because they idiotically interpreted "I am a python developer" to mean "I would try to build a rendering engine in python" then I'd say that's probably a bullet dodged.
I'd interpret it as "I don't build rendering engines but I build other stuff for which python is a good fit", but maybe that's just me being weird.
The trope about great programmers being people who reverse binary trees in their sleep and being able to swap ecosystems at the drop of a hat needs to die. Great programmers specialise.
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I suspect that NYT will contribute quite a bit back to ProseMirror out of enlightened self-interest but not give away the secret sauce that make Oak a competitive advantage for them. This is REAL freedom in software: without the ability to build a closed-source, for-profit business it won't succeed. I'll take MIT/BSD/Apache over something with a herpes license (GPL/AGPL) any day.
Can we leave the Slashdot-quality trolling about licensing back in the previous millennium where it belongs? There are, of course, successful projects licensed under the GPL and AGPL (Linux comes to mind), many of which have for-profit businesses; there are plenty of people with different priorities about what "REAL freedom" is. And calling the licenses that match their priorities "herpes licenses" is unlikely to con…
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In most hiring settings this isn't true though. Language-specific skills actually do matter, for all but entry-level positions at massive tech companies. It's not like my 3 years of experience in Ruby is immediately translatable to Java/Python/whatever. Could I get up to speed in those languages in due time? Sure. But if you were on a hiring committee, hiring for a team that works mostly with Java (or whatever) would…
> It's not like my 3 years of experience in Ruby is immediately translatable to Java/Python/whatever. It should be. Picking up language X is very easy for most values of X (more esoteric ones excluded). After you know a few (and the more diverse the set, the less new concepts you'll see), picking up a new one is quick. If it is something like Go, it's a weekend's worth. Using the language in idiomatic ways and knowin…
Yeah. As in years. This stuff also changes all the time so requires perpetual learning.
>But languages? It's a mere tool, and you need more than one in your toolbox.
It's not a mere tool and languages are more than just trivially learned syntax. They are the umbrella under which a panoply of tools, approaches, ideas, priorities and culture aggregate.
Sure, you specialization isn't necessarily always the optimal approach and sure there are benefits to the cross fertilization of ideas across community lines. However, being a jack of all programming languages, master of none probably means you'll suck more than a specialist at a lot of stuff.
Moreover, some ecosystems plain suck and avoidance is the sign of a good programmer. Statistically, you're probably a worse programmer if you've used a lot of PHP and better if you've learned rust/F#.
I'm choosing an editor for my project right now. Can someone compare ProseMirror to Slate and Quill? What is the difference, which one is better? What do I need to know to choose one?
I think to fully experience all three of those editors, you should build the following: something that generates a rich text input using the editor, updates a data store (can be just in-memory if you want), and then re-presents the rich text in a read-only format.
With Quill in particular, there's two ways to approach the second part - you could dump the data into another instance of the quill editor, but one flagged as read-only, and let quill handle rendering out all the elements. I don't do that, myself, as it's a bit heavy and relies on the DOM to be present to create the end result (meaning rendering rich text into emails on the server side can be tricky). Instead I use a library (that I wrote) that converts the quill representation into an HTML string that can be later injected into whatever place it needs to go.
In general, I think that's where the one of the important pain points is for any major modern text editor exist - converting the internal data representation into a canonicalized HTML string. This gets further complicated by your framework - it's easy enough to inject an HTML string, and angular 1 lets you even compile that so you can have custom elements there, but angular 2 has no such facility (compiling; you can still inject). So rendering custom elements into angular 2 is feasible but quite tricky.
You'll need to figure out how to handle custom elements too, like at-mentions and so on; those are really domain-specific. How I handle at-mentions in quill (with a pop-up autocomplete) depends on the structure of the overall system as well as the framework I'm in - angular 1, 2 and react all suggest different approaches for this.
Anyway, this is all a long response that means "it depends". Each editor has its own strengths and weaknesses that are exposed by the specific data and presentation needs of your project and the other frameworks in play. But building an atmention or other custom element and converting from the internal data structure to HTML is a good test of functions for all of those.
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A word of unsolicited advice: Someone who thinks "I am a Python developer" is generally less useful to a team than someone who thinks "I am a developer who is good at Python."
Not all languages are created equal. While yes a developer with years of experience in python may have lots of transferable skills to other languages, my team arent going to hire someone for a mid level/senior position without a good knowledge of c++