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krystiangwon It’s OK to Still Use Angular 1 in 2017

It is still supported. What's more new versions are coming. Some people says it will be just like with Python 3 - a lot of people still using python 2.

krystiangw on Ask HN: How do you – Style Components built using React/Vue/Angular etc.

I would not care too much about performance in the context of linking and evaulating css for modern browsers. It has small if any impact. If it is better for maintainability - than it is good way to go.

krystiangw on Ask HN: Starting a project today, which web framework would you use?

Choose technologies you are the most comfortable with. I would go with MEAN stack.

krystiangw on 95% engineers in India unfit for software development jobs: study

I know many really great Indnian developers. I know even more really bad Indnian developers.
I have an impression that there is huge social pressure in India to become a developer. What makes sense is because it is a good profession.
Because many of these developers have too little capacities to become a programmer, hence, there may be a stereotype of poor programmers from India.

krystiangw on Ask HN: Thinking about a year off from work to travel. Am I making a mistake?

You might try life of digital nomad. You can work from everywhere in tech industry now. And staying in some new place for several weeks might the best way get to know country culture and people. This way you will feel more like a local, not a tourist.

krystiangw on Show HN: WrapAPI v2 – Build APIs, scrapers, bots on any website

This is awesome. I'll give it a shot in my some of my next projects.

krystiangw on Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere

Thanks man. That was good

krystiangw on The First-Ever Banner Ad on the Web

and the rest is history...

krystiangw on Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers

I would use NodeJS for MVP. I think it is super important that you can have backend + frontend in the same technology.

krystiangw on StarCraft is now free, nearly 20 years after its release

The greatest strength of Starcraft is online game, so it will definetelly be avaliable.

krystiangw on Why Recorded/Playback Tests in Selenium Break

Few more thoughts from me:
* Don't treat your test code as second class citizen. For tests follow the same clean code principles you are following for your app code.
* I saw many dirty workarounds for selenium tests that didn't behave as expected. In major count of it happens due to lack of understanding selenium / test framework API. So read the docs. If something doesn't work - read the docs again ;)
* Don't test everything with selenium E2E tests. Test this way just most crucial scenarios. Leave more detailed stuff to unit tests.

krystiangw on Why Recorded/Playback Tests in Selenium Break

I was dealing with Selenium tests a lot. I noticed developers are often skeptical about these tests saying it is not reliable. I do not agree with that, I have proven in several projects that you can have stable and reliable selenium tests. Just like any other tests, it requires proper test environment and continuous maintenance. The most common mistake I noticed is using `browser.sleep` instead of `wait.until`

krystiangw on India Is Too Poor, Snapchat Is for the Rich People – Evan Spiegel

Spain is a wealthy country with very happy people :) I bet Evan Spiegel was never in Spain

krystiangw on You Might Not Need GraphQL

GraphQL might not be the new standard for web, but for sure it has great influence on how we are seeing future of client-server communication.

krystiangw on Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

I'm using Sublime for 3 years now ( firstly version 2 ). I have never found anything better. It just works.

krystiangw on Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

I like Bing webmaster tools. In some areas it is even better than Google's

krystiangw on Ask HN: How much of your time at work do you spend not working?

I believe I'm productive for about 70% of the time. I'm most distracted when I'm swiching to other project. I need to re-focus again.

krystiangw on Opinionated Comparison of React, Angular2, and Aurelia

Here is interesting comparison of frontend frameworks popularity in job offers:
https://jobsquery.it/stats/frontend-frameworks/group

krystiangw on Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups

Seems that startups are paying above average if you check some stats:
https://jobsquery.it/stats/data.projectIndustry/startup

krystiangw on Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the most expensive cities?

The best jobs positions often do not allow for remote.
Here is a map showing average tech wages in a nice way: https://jobsquery.it/map
You can spot cities with highest salaries quite easy

krystiangw on Curl is C

C has still huge market share. Seems that it occurs in 5% of all tech job offers:
https://jobsquery.it/stats/data.technologies/C
Stats also showing that average salary for C developers is above average for all tech job openings.

krystiangw on Ask HN: Getting back into programming after 8 year break

I think the best indicator will be the frequency of occurrence of technology / language in job offers.
Check out programming language popularity in job offers:
https://jobsquery.it/stats/language/group
Or just general buzzwords popularity:
https://jobsquery.it/stats/tags/group

krystiangw on San Jose and Oakland area job markets tumble

I wouldn't worry too much. I can see 500 tech job openings in San Jose only:
https://jobsquery.it/jobs;page=1;tags=;sortBy=PUBLISHED_AT_D...

krystiangw on Angular 4.0.0 Now Available

Angular seems to have hard time but it is still the most popular Frontend framework:
https://jobsquery.it/stats/frontend-frameworks/group

krystiangw on What Is the Highest Salary Can a Programmer Make?

$400k as a developer is the best I found:
https://jobsquery.it/jobs;page=1;tags=;sortBy=SALARY_DESC;qu...
:)

krystiangw on JavaScript vs. Python in 2017

In terms of popularity Javascript clearly wins. According to stats:
https://jobsquery.it/stats/language/group
JavaScript is mentioned in 17% of all tech job offers VS 10% for Python.
However in terms of average salary - Python is the winner. Average salary for Python openings is $117k annually VS $96k for Javascript.
(same stats page https://jobsquery.it/stats/language/group )

krystiangw on PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server from the point of view of a data analyst (2014)

krystiangw on RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017

The data looks reliable. Especially that it mostly overlap with other similar stats like this one:
# Language | Popularity | Avg. Salary global
----------------+------------+------------
1. Javascript | 30.13% | $60,186
2. Java | 27.5% | $61,741
3. Python | 15.58% | $66,353
4. C# | 12.8% | $66,470
5. SQL | 10.97% | $54,139
6. C++ | 9.95% | $69,092
7. Php | 8.74% | $53,420
8. Node.js | 8.45% | $64,818
9. C | 6.28% | $67,720
10.Ruby | 5.08% | $68,478
More stats and details https://jobsquery.it/stats/language/group