To some extent - yes. I’m pretty comfortable with Rails and use Dash for docs.
Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
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I remain living happily in the old days of PHP, somehow making functioning applications and being paid well. Life is easy and good.
My last interview: the interviewers said I was the only candidate who didn't Google any syntax or articles after being given a small 60 min development task from scratch. I was applying for a senior dev role and if I couldn't deliver a tiny web app, I wouldn't hire me either. I could have just solved the task procedurally but I asked if they wanted to see a more OO solution to demo a bit more knowledge. I think back…
Personally I make no attempt to write code without googling. In my position as a robotics engineer my work covers such a breadth that I guess I just outsource my memory to Google. I don’t remember the syntax for many common Linux commands. I don’t remember how bash scripts work. I constantly look recommended ways of solving certain problems. Google is just integrated in to my process.
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#183I worked in field robotics and sometimes you would find yourself in a boat without internet fixing robotic software problems at sea. I took 50GB of wiki resources mirrored in my pocket.
Sounds like a future Starlink customer
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I remain living happily in the old days of PHP, somehow making functioning applications and being paid well. Life is easy and good.
My last interview: the interviewers said I was the only candidate who didn't Google any syntax or articles after being given a small 60 min development task from scratch. I was applying for a senior dev role and if I couldn't deliver a tiny web app, I wouldn't hire me either. I could have just solved the task procedurally but I asked if they wanted to see a more OO solution to demo a bit more knowledge. I think back…
It seems odd to practice things you rarely do.
I went one stint where I didn't start a new project for 5 years. Practicing new projects in that time period would have been a whole lot of wasted time.
Re: Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
#185Sure, depending on your definition of “basic”:
npm i express
node -e ‘require(“express”)().get(“/“, (req, res) => res.end(“hello world!”)).listen(3000)’Re: Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
#186If you define web app as an HTTP socket server in C, yes.
Re: Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t
#187I worked in field robotics and sometimes you would find yourself in a boat without internet fixing robotic software problems at sea. I took 50GB of wiki resources mirrored in my pocket.
I was thinking about a situation similar to that in web development. But if there’s no internet, a web application doesn’t make that much sense does it...
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My last interview: the interviewers said I was the only candidate who didn't Google any syntax or articles after being given a small 60 min development task from scratch. I was applying for a senior dev role and if I couldn't deliver a tiny web app, I wouldn't hire me either. I could have just solved the task procedurally but I asked if they wanted to see a more OO solution to demo a bit more knowledge. I think back…
It seems odd to practice things you rarely do. I went one stint where I didn't start a new project for 5 years. Practicing new projects in that time period would have been a whole lot of wasted time.
To make you less fragile to disorder. The things you do regularly are trained into you by repetition. You practice under developped skills to stay flexible and able to adapt.
Very similar to physical fitness. Sitting all day trains you to sit. And that’s making you more fragile
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#189I can’t make any basic apps without googling :/
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There's nothing unique here. Virtually all libraries and languages have local version of docs. I think you're too biased to continue in good faith argument.
they all do, its just that some are better than others. i dont actually like php, but it has plenty of advantages when it comes to quick web app development even without googling. had a client once where its workers were day dreaming of a job in the valley and ofc they were using python. they bashed php on a daily basis, and as they were doing it, the php api was sole codebase running in production (essentially the c…
The comment was about writing an app with no docs local or otherwise. That you hate python seems...irrelevant