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Which animations? I def would want to fix/tweak that
The focus/blur animations are definitely jarring.
more info: https://twitter.com/pketh/status/1545436838537695234
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Off course they don't agree. Though I have asked numerous times to come up with scientific research or arguments that prove the science in e.g. Accelerate! wrong, no-one, not even the strongest opponent of CI, TDD or such, ever has produced that. Instead, people come with handwavy nonharguments that "in this particular scenario it is different". To which I neither agree nor disagree. I only have proof that it does ap…
Sure, but unless someone's taken the time to do the studies, anecdotes are the best data we have. And I'm not entirely dismissive of personal feelings either, when they're formed as the result of years of experience exploring different techniques. Especially because I tend to feel there's more to software development than just "engineering", and there's a creative side to it that's never going to be completely reduci…
It's now up to you to show some scientific method, data and theses, to prove the other science wrong.
Or, in other words: if science and "personal feelings" disagree, it's very obvious what should be considered the right take. Until the time that personal feeling is proven right. Scientific.
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Really? I think the most productive thing the industry could do is get rid of developers who drastically overvalue their own work, methods, and ideas, haughtily dismiss the value of others’ contributions out of hand, and blame everyone else for a project’s shortcomings. You can usually ID them by their persistently rolled eyes, big fish in small pond mentality, and 1.9 septillion reputation on Stack Overflow.
It sounds like I struck a nerve. Does it hurt you knowing there are a lot of developers out there that contribute more in a week than you do in several months?
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I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss the previous answers, although I think they're a bit snarky. There is indeed a larger number of developers that is necessary on lots of projects from influential companies lately, and this heavily affects the architecture and the outcome of those projects. The goal isn't to "build X" anymore, it's to "build X but with N engineers", with N being multiple times the minimum amount needed…
Maybe there are a ton of unqualified developers in SV playing Wordle instead of coding? I have no idea. The vast majority of software projects aren't managed by FAANG or Unicorn companies. The financial landscape in those companies is completely detached from reality and not a good basis for comparison.
Maybe there are, I also have no idea. But in my experience most engineers are qualified and hard workers, even when there is team bloat. Companies are hiring well. It's just that they're hiring too much.
> The vast majority of software projects aren't managed by FAANG or Unicorn companies. The financial landscape in those companies is completely detached from reality and not a good basis for comparison.
But this happens on several industries, not only FAANG. Most companies that get off the ground with a skeleton crew will start hiring more as soon as they get more cash, doesn't have to be from investors. That's because they want more things faster. The reality is grimmer, though: 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month. And 9 women can't also make an adult-sized baby in 9 months.
I think the bad “web” has a lot more to do with the business side of things than whatever development tools you use. If the website is free to use, it’s either a passion or community project or it sells you. Sometimes that works out sort of well in places like HN, and other times it works out less well like on the infinite amount of shitty news papers. But those news papers can be shitty in all technologies even in t…
> I do think we need a better tool for finding the passion projects I like the idea! I wonder though how that would look like. How do you imagine such a tool? Would it be something like a "directory" from back in the 90s where people submit their link under a specific category?
Probably easier to search and discover.