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It also weeds out people who don't have time for "cute" little games like that.
To be honest it didn't really take more than a few seconds to get the relevant information. So time really isn't the limiting factor here..
Python, the "second best language for everything", has had a huge impact for teaching people programming. Beginners can do useful and interesting things and solve real problems after a few hours of learning. And yet the number of times I've seen beginners completely discouraged or even give up programming forever because they have conda and pip and brew and pyenv installed and can't run a basic script after 4 hours o…
I'm disappointed that now you need to sign up on www.repl.it rather than just spinning up a test environment, definitely cuts down on usage. I've found a workaround with www. http://repl.it/languages/python3 for example, but I'm not sure how long this will still be active given their plans to become a full-fledged IDE.
We have no plans and I see no reason to make you have to sign up. (Although to cut down on abuse some things aren't available for anonymous users like long-term web hosting). You can also go to repl.it/languages and see all the langauges. As for our plans to become an IDE: we've given ourselves the hard task of being a REPL-first IDE and to always load in under 2 seconds. More here: https://repl.it/blog/platform For…
This baffles me. Why? Don't people just want to mash something into a REPL quickly (step in between: write the first one or two letters of the language you want to use and press enter)? That's certainly how I use it ...
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It also weeds out people who don't have time for "cute" little games like that.
It takes literally 10 seconds to run `ls -la` and `cat` some files to get the information. If that's a problem for an applicant, it's a good exclusion to the funnel.
We don't use clis during every day life for a reason.
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We've occasionally used it when discussing Python X vs Python Y behaviours across separate machines (I don't have 3.6 installed but 3.7, a coworker has 3.6 but no 3.7) and are the kind of questions you just want to quickly check, not create a new virtual environment (under Homebrew on Mac, good luck having 3.6 _and_ 3.7 if you regularly `brew cleanup`...) or spin a docker instance. The coworker also regularly tries S…
pyenv is a good solution for managing multiple Python version installations.
Just a fun meta note: I initially authored this blogpost and collaborated on it with my colleagues using repl.it. It's also hosted under https://repl.vc and you can get to the source this way https://repl.vc/__repl Moreover, lots of people are discovering our jobs ( https://repl.it/jobs ) page. It's worth noting that it's as part of an ongoing project we're calling repl.run: ship terminal apps as websites. We release…
It made slightly more sense to me when I saw it on context at this URL: https://repl.it/site/jobs
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We've occasionally used it when discussing Python X vs Python Y behaviours across separate machines (I don't have 3.6 installed but 3.7, a coworker has 3.6 but no 3.7) and are the kind of questions you just want to quickly check, not create a new virtual environment (under Homebrew on Mac, good luck having 3.6 _and_ 3.7 if you regularly `brew cleanup`...) or spin a docker instance. The coworker also regularly tries S…
pyenv is a good solution for managing multiple Python version installations.
the jobs link is interesting. Takes you to a functioning command line but has no other hints or instructions. An interesting gating function: those who don't know how to proceed further (or can't problem-solve sufficiently to find out) aren't likely to succeed in the role and can safely be excluded. Might also have the added bonus of being safe from headhunter bot scrapers.
But alas
$ fgrep -r remote open-positions
open-positions/community-manager.txt:SF (remote OK)Just a fun meta note: I initially authored this blogpost and collaborated on it with my colleagues using repl.it. It's also hosted under https://repl.vc and you can get to the source this way https://repl.vc/__repl Moreover, lots of people are discovering our jobs ( https://repl.it/jobs ) page. It's worth noting that it's as part of an ongoing project we're calling repl.run: ship terminal apps as websites. We release…
Awesome job on the terminal-app-as-webpage concept. I like how it also fits in with your meta "IDE to learn programming" concept. It made slightly more sense to me when I saw it on context at this URL: https://repl.it/site/jobs
name = input('What is your name?\n')
print('Hi, %s.' % name)
Every programmer has experienced an intense sense of accomplishment when someone uses their program. The problem is that, until today, there was no easy way to share text and terminal-based programs.
The bar to sharing apps shouldn't be GUI as it remains really really hard.