How the New York Times Works
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How the New York Times Works
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Re: How the New York Times Works
#2If all you rascals have any questions — feel free to ask. The "militaristic fervor" isn't quite yet in effect here this early in the morning...
Re: How the New York Times Works
#3The author [necessarily] glazed over the more interesting features of the building:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Building#Sus...
Re: How the New York Times Works
#4If all you rascals have any questions — feel free to ask. The "militaristic fervor" isn't quite yet in effect here this early in the morning...
1. Has the NYT dev team started moving more towards Go? Or towards JS/Node. Or Python? Or is there no consensus (nor any need for one)?
2. What's Maureen Dowd's opinion on CoffeeScript vs JavaScript?
Re: How the New York Times Works
#5If all you rascals have any questions — feel free to ask. The "militaristic fervor" isn't quite yet in effect here this early in the morning...
1. Has the NYT dev team started moving more towards Go? Or towards JS/Node. Or Python? Or is there no consensus (nor any need for one)? 2. What's Maureen Dowd's opinion on CoffeeScript vs JavaScript?
1. There are many different teams of "devs" that each do their own thing ... but as far as I'm aware — The main site is still mostly PHP and Java, with perhaps a bit of Node and Go here and there. The iOS folks, are naturally Objective-C, and the Android folks are Java. Interactive News is Rails and Node, with a touch of Haskell whenever Hinton throws it in the mix ;) Graphics is as static as possible, with Node tools for pre-building and pre-baking.
2. As you can read for yourself here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-ou... ... Maureen Dowd is clearly down with groovy, far-out technologies of the mind-expanding sort.
Re: How the New York Times Works
#6If all you rascals have any questions — feel free to ask. The "militaristic fervor" isn't quite yet in effect here this early in the morning...
This is a little off-track, and possibly you can't answer this question - have you met any of the NYT columnists? What are your personal impressions of them and how they interact?
I've always been a little interested since clearly sometimes they target their columns at each other.
Re: How the New York Times Works
#7If all you rascals have any questions — feel free to ask. The "militaristic fervor" isn't quite yet in effect here this early in the morning...
1. Has the NYT dev team started moving more towards Go? Or towards JS/Node. Or Python? Or is there no consensus (nor any need for one)? 2. What's Maureen Dowd's opinion on CoffeeScript vs JavaScript?
With regard to languages, there's a real mix. PHP is still probably the most widely used language (including on the main desktop site, and our blogs are powered by Wordpress), but the mobile site runs on Node, and Go is definitely being used in the building.
Re: How the New York Times Works
#8The author [necessarily] glazed over the more interesting features of the building: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Building#Sus...
i see what you did there
Re: How the New York Times Works
#9The author [necessarily] glazed over the more interesting features of the building: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Building#Sus...
Not mentioned in the wikipedia article: There are no trash cans in the lunchroom because Renzo Piano apparently hates them. Instead, weird conveyer belt tray thing.
Re: How the New York Times Works
#10If all you rascals have any questions — feel free to ask. The "militaristic fervor" isn't quite yet in effect here this early in the morning...
You don't even like us do you? Why are you even here?