I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine

Post by mattalex » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 3:22 PM UTC

sly010 wrote: post #147

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I've heard of a theory that says "A's hire A's but B's hire C's". The gist is that cream-of-the-crop interviewers actively look for open-ended-ness and the possibility that the interviewee may be better at things than they are, whereas less effective interviewers only look for people whose skills are a subset of their own (and by implication, design tests that only leverage the skillset they know, hence the "must hav…

I agree that good engineers can learn most tech fast, and that that is due to experience and not them being inherently smarter than others. If this is true though, how do you measure (non specific) experience? Maybe asking for 100 relatively easy but totally random knowledge crumbs? (some web, some unix, some networking, some functional programming, etc). It would be impossible to score high, but well rounded enginee…

Post by fsociety » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 6:14 PM UTC

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> The first rule you should remember when reading HN is the real world is not HN. Can you explain what you mean by that?

How often do you see Rust mentioned here? Rust's actual use in the industry is minimal. Yes, it's growing, but it's relatively unknown. The small academic team I was on wrote a stats app package using Mithril. Nobody's using mithril, it's hardly discussed here, even though the author posts often. I truly believe that mithril is better than React or Vue people just don't know about it, it's not part of the hype cycle.…

Post by BoumTAC » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 6:51 PM UTC

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When I started learning to code few years ago, tutorials were always, "how to create a blog ?" because it shows everything (authentication, crud, nested view, rights). Then javascript framework came out. It was so hard that they move to just a todolist tutorial because even the creator didn't know how to create a blog with their new cool tech. Some blogger were still able to understand how to use it and release todol…

This is a wonderful comment. You've put into words what I've felt about the industry these past 10 years. Complexity correlates strongly with onboarding. The more complex your framework, library, or tool, the longer and steeper the learning curve to become productive with it.

Post by the__alchemist » Sun, Sep 05, 2021, 12:31 AM UTC

robertoandred wrote: post #117

the__alchemist wrote: post #29

I've found the way to reduce churn the most is discard frameworks and DSLs whenever possible. This morning, I rewrote a page of frontend code for a scheduling webapp. I'd initially built it in TS/React years ago. Switched to Rust/WASM with a custom VDOM-based framework a year ago. I'm reasonably confident I won't rewrite it again in a new framework: the new page is an HTML document with an included JS script that per…

Is this custom VDOM-based framework not a dependency? Doesn’t sound like a web standard.

Post by mattblayac » Sun, Sep 05, 2021, 8:05 AM UTC

selfhoster11 wrote: post #145

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>Rust has a huge exposure in the programming community. And it's used exactly nowhere. Can you name one project that is rust based and isn't part of the rust toolchain?

Redox, quite a few utilities that replace classic Unix ones with something that has a better interface (ls, and I think something that replaced grep), probably more.