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1) Nobody has any idea what they're doing 2) If you think you know more than your manager – you are absolutely right 3) HN is 3 years ahead of mainstream, but 10 years behind the edge 4) React was made by an OCaml programmer 5) if you want to be that good, learn emerging languages (all of them) 5) don't optimize for money too soon, if you follow these instructions you will quadruple soon enough 6) Whatever your probl…
1) Nobody has any idea what they're doing 2) If you think you know more than your manager – you are absolutely right 3) HN is 3 years ahead of mainstream, but 10 years behind the edge 4) React was made by an OCaml programmer 5) if you want to be that good, learn emerging languages (all of them) 5) don't optimize for money too soon, if you follow these instructions you will quadruple soon enough 6) Whatever your probl…
What is your reasoning behind the recommendation to learn Clojure? I am generally unfamiliar with it but saw it was a general purpose language. What makes it so valuable to be included in your list?
There are two that stand out to me: > Always validate your data server-side; anything that comes from the client is suspect. At least sanitize in a way that won't break the server but will throw an error. For internal applications and side projects it's ok to just respond with a 40X or a 50X and move on. > To the developer, “isomorphic” code breaks down the barrier between client and server. "Breaks down the barrier"…
OTOH, if you use Flow or Typescript, it is amazing to be able to share type-safe interfaces across the stack (not code). I suppose you could get this from any compiled-to-JS language too.
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What is your reasoning behind the recommendation to learn Clojure? I am generally unfamiliar with it but saw it was a general purpose language. What makes it so valuable to be included in your list?
I'd think anything in the LISP family would qualify
I feel like posts like this are just somebody missing the web how it used to be. I mean the Web IS an app platform now.
I didn't get that sense from the post. I took that they were advocating for basic HTML/JS when appropriate. A reminder that it's still a valid way of doing things. If you're building an app, yeah use React. If you want to put some contact info on the internet, there's no reason it can't be vanilla HTML. Or at least that's how I read it.
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I'd think anything in the LISP family would qualify
You must understand the point I am missing. Why learn a language in the LISP family as a young developer? Does it somehow improve you overall?
Mostly the appeal is how easy it is to extend the syntax (because there is barely any syntax at all).
Disclaimer: I have written a good hunk of Emacs Lisp and also written Scheme professionally, but I have yet to grok macros.
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How would the site we’re communicating on right now be improved if it were rebuilt as an SPA?
Threading could be clearer. Less data would need to be loaded on each page load. I can imagine that a lightweight SPA to handle the a few standard views (e.g. listItems, itemDetails, profile, changePassword, submit) would cut down data transfer by a significant margin (20-30%, maybe more). The UI could also be much better on mobile, and we could give users the option to cache certain pieces of content offline.
1) Load the page.
2) The page is now fully loaded and ready for reading without any need for further network requests.
For even more offline use, try printing it! HN threads work superbly when printed, again unlike most modern sites.
to any "young developers" read I would say not to blindly adopt these opinions without understanding them.
1) Nobody has any idea what they're doing 2) If you think you know more than your manager – you are absolutely right 3) HN is 3 years ahead of mainstream, but 10 years behind the edge 4) React was made by an OCaml programmer 5) if you want to be that good, learn emerging languages (all of them) 5) don't optimize for money too soon, if you follow these instructions you will quadruple soon enough 6) Whatever your probl…
what / where is "the edge", in your mind?
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You mean the specific experience when back buttons aren't working? Or when urls don't make sense? Or when you can't just share the content by copying the url because it no longer identifies the conten? Or when you can't say if something is loading, missing, or broken? This is my user experience with SPAs regarding navigation.
If an spa is behaving like that, the coders have failed at their job.
And then people stopped using PHP.