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by pixie_ 10y ago
On the other hand I don't understand how anyone can work with a code base that is dynamically typed. I'm looking at a function parameter in a random file. How do I even begin to work with it? Unless you wrote the code yourself yo
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by pixie_ 10y ago
What's sad is the zillions of hours wasted by engineers on an inherently flawed stack. What's sad is how ridiculously complicated it is to create and manage relatively simple UIs. What's sad is an entire generations of progra
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by pixie_ 10y ago
Yes. I feel like we're in the dark ages right now. JavaScript - Dynamically typed, does not scale what so ever. Code written in it becomes 'read only' very quickly. Impossible to refactor. CSS - Also becomes impossible to man
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by pixie_ 10y ago
I've seen tons of over-engineered code in the real world. People with the title of 'architect' abstracting every last bit of code so that it's impossible to make sense of. Everyone starts off wanting to make a 'powe
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by pixie_ 10y ago
The most productive I've been as a developer was 20 years ago when I was creating VB6 apps and components...
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by pixie_ 10y ago
It's annoying in a lot of services I can't use my google voice number to authenticate.
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by pixie_ 10y ago
I've been programming for a long time and TypeScript has been a slam dunk for me. It makes programming large web apps actually considerably more manageable. Unfortunately I spend a lot of time defending the merits of static typing to m
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by pixie_ 10y ago
Development cost? I've had huge development savings using typescript. The support for fast refactoring plus constant intellisense of any type errors has sped up my up my development significantly.
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by pixie_ 10y ago
Typing doesn't get in the way of prototyping code. On the contrary it's essential. When you're starting out a new project the tendancy to refactor is very high. Everything is changing and in flux as you go from nothing to som
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by pixie_ 10y ago
I feel like ancient civilizations a lot of times turned to art once their societies leveled off. Large structures, pots, roads, figures, clothing, etc.. I believe art is unlimited resource and we could have an economy running purely on art.
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by pixie_ 10y ago
ORMs are not for people who don't know SQL. The secret to using an ORM is knowing exactly the SQL it will generate underneath. The advantage to using one is static typing as well as writing orders or magnitude less code than SQL. As we
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by pixie_ 10y ago
Somehow in 18 years and billions of dollars of revenue, Google has not figured out another way to make real money.
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by pixie_ 10y ago
It is pretty much impossible to have any sort of inferred structure from plain javascript. The reason you can use super powerful tools to refactor, rename, and find all references across files in typescript is because the IDE can build a 10
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by pixie_ 10y ago
Structure means walls. There are tons of crazy things you can do 'outside' the walls with javascript. There are no checks if anything you reference exists or that your assignments are compatible. The browser's compiler will f
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by pixie_ 11y ago
I agree. I'm pretty jaded on Google's side projects.
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by pixie_ 11y ago
I talk with a lot of programmers that think that abstracting everything is super important. Everything must be a black box and the programmer should have no idea what's happening inside of it. Their code is an over engineered mess of i
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by pixie_ 11y ago
The last time I felt productive doing UIs was with WinForms and before that VB6.
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by pixie_ 11y ago
REST is the definition of a buzzword. Vague. Useless. Everyone talks about it, but no one ever 'understands' it. You make your API REST not because you think it's good, but because everyone else does it. It's instant ka
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by pixie_ 11y ago
I'm not talking about popularity. I'm talking about indiscriminate hate because it's connected with microsoft. C# has suffered the same stigma since the beginning.
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by pixie_ 11y ago
If only typescript was written by facebook or google then people wouldn't hate it.
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by pixie_ 11y ago
SpaceX is significantly disrupting the entire launch industry right now.
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by pixie_ 11y ago
A simple POST based API? What is this blasphemy?
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by pixie_ 11y ago
So many times I've been in a normal taxi and wanted to rate the driver. Knowing that if they were held accountable for the truly horrible service they would never drive again. This is part of why Uber is awesome.
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by pixie_ 11y ago
Exactly, how many times do you want to use a component but find it near impossible because it's written with a framework, or uses CSS styles that conflict with your own, or is written for use with a different version of the very framew
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by pixie_ 11y ago
If you're transferring anything other than hypertext over http then you're a hypocrite.
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by pixie_ 11y ago
ES6 doesn't have static typing either.
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by pixie_ 11y ago
It does encourage more endpoints because I can't include data from two different objects in a response. They should be GET separately. With highly relational data where I need to create an endpoint that returns information regarding 5
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by pixie_ 11y ago
I deal with REST zealots like this everyday :( just the fact that people spend so much time debating what is and what isn't REST should be a red flag that maybe it isn't the answer to everything. All the simple REST examples make
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by pixie_ 11y ago
Biotech is a goldmine. Hint: It's not. R&D isn't guaranteed to pay off. Why even do it or invest in it if the chance of success is so low?
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by pixie_ 11y ago
It's been awhile since the last big anti-trust trial. Get the popcorn!

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