You can't impress developers

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Post by cmbaus » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 8:35 AM UTC

You can't impress developers
baus.net

Re: You can't impress developers

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Post by ksikka » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 8:47 AM UTC

I am a developer and I was impressed.

Re: You can't impress developers

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Post by cmbaus » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 8:50 AM UTC

This conversation reminds of the old programmer joke:

How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Five. One to screw in the light bulb and four to say, "I could have done that."

Re: You can't impress developers

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Post by ecspike » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 8:56 AM UTC

Brython has bubbled up on HackerNews several times. It might not be "not impressed", just "not impressed anymore."

Edit: Added quotation marks.

Re: You can't impress developers

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Post by nullspace » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 9:05 AM UTC

cmbaus wrote: post #3

This conversation reminds of the old programmer joke: How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Five. One to screw in the light bulb and four to say, "I could have done that."

Offtopic, but a quick googling led me to this: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~omri/Humor/lightbulb.html

Fun read!

Re: You can't impress developers

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 9:13 AM UTC

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Re: You can't impress developers

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Post by idoco » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 9:14 AM UTC

nullspace wrote: post #5

cmbaus wrote: post #3

This conversation reminds of the old programmer joke: How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Five. One to screw in the light bulb and four to say, "I could have done that."

Offtopic, but a quick googling led me to this: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~omri/Humor/lightbulb.html Fun read!

Off-Offtopic! But I loved this one:

How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

False.

Re: You can't impress developers

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Post by akkartik » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 9:19 AM UTC

You can't impress developers on HN. There's something about the social dynamics of large groups of developers online that causes relatively-uninteresting criticisms to dominate. But when somebody's actually trying something out, rather than just kibitzing? They're a lot friendlier.

If you couldn't impress developers we'd never switch to new technologies. And yet here we are, with rack and sinatra and cucumber and node and clojure.

Re: You can't impress developers

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Post by philwelch » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 9:22 AM UTC

I think this underlines what Hacker News has become. At first, Hacker News was about people discussing technology, but also about building things and sharing them, and it was a very supportive community that would actually give useful feedback. Now we're more interested in being hypercritical dicks and gossiping about the tech industry.

Re: You can't impress developers

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Post by bambax » Sun, Jun 02, 2013, 9:24 AM UTC

cmbaus wrote: post #3

This conversation reminds of the old programmer joke: How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Five. One to screw in the light bulb and four to say, "I could have done that."

Funny! But why just five? It would work just the same with "hundreds"...