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Recruiters are like men on dating apps: spam as many people as possible without reading their profiles, treating people like objects
Who hurt you??
> The older I get, the more I appreciate dynamic languages. Fuck, I said it. Fight me. The other ones are quite obvious but this is the one that really resonated with me. People, with experience, tend to get more pragmatic and less "academic".
Pragmatic for me is knowing what’s wrong at compile time, and not being told much much later at runtime that I nested this array in a dictionary in an array wrong, or that my string is an integer. I got older, stopped using python for exactly the reasons above (I just really felt that it was wasting my time for trivial reasons), and found mypy which made it bearable again.
Have you ever considered PHP?
I disagree with the comment regarding the tech stack. It does matter - it only doesn’t if you’re willing to spend more money scaling worse preforming applications.
yeah, it is referenced later on.. it's a drunken post, so a bit disorganized :D
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This is my extreme counter example: What is better (A) a compiled bug free binary, or (B) well written source code that has a few bugs? If you want to keep developing the software, the answer will always be (B).
This is not generally true, but strongly depends on the domain.
not a single comment in here addressing two of the most important points brought up by the OP. the redditors managed to do it constructively. while gender and racial politics are clearly orthogonal to the concerns of the average HN poster, the tech we build is imbued with them and we are responsible for the issues produced by the lack of their consideration. > There's not enough women in technology. What a fucked up…
I don't think derisive attitudes in the workplace adequately explain it, because there are a lot fewer women in CS/engineering school too.
> Good code is code that can be understood by a junior engineer. Great code can be understood by a first year CS freshman. The best code is no code at all. Couldn't agree more
which is why leetcode makes no sense, as it focuses on premature optimization and writing the most advanced code possible which no freshman will be able to understand, at least not without dissecting it for a few hours first.
The only sort function I could write is probably bubble sort. Why? Because more efficient ones out there already exist and I could google them and paste 1000x faster than I could write them.
Lazy programmers are efficient. Puzzle solving masturbators waste a ton of time.
> If people are trying to assign blame to a bug or outage, it's time to move on. This is one of my favorite excerpts. I once worked in a lab where we would have frequent catastrophic failures because there was never any disaster planning or contingency management plan. I personally triaged 3 such incidents alone or with people who happened to be there when the problem arose and attempted to disseminate some suggestio…
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I really didn't mean for the comment to come across that way. I fully agreed with "it sounds great because it is great". I just wanted to provide another perspective too.
No, I completely get that. I'm just adding some of my background to show my thoughts. I know there are other areas and other people that command higher prices.
Cannot agree more especially if you previously had a blame-free culture and it doesn't look like it's returning in a hurry.
I have seen this happen when new management comes in and don't value root cause analysis and look for a person or team to blame to protect themselves.
This, and the current “sober” posts on r/ExperiencedDevs, makes me think of Herodotus describing the way the Persians made important decisions - once sober, once drunk, and if the drunk and sober decisions were the same they knew it was a good one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vino_veritas Is the phrase. Useful if you want to appear cultured at a company party.