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Ideal unit of software professional (officially: "resource", unofficially: "body"), as seen by employer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfGs2Y5WJ14

BTW, here you can see agile technology in action, too. The entire movie is well worth your time.

If something is called "framework", you can safely ignore it - it's clearly a pile of crap. If the thing is useful, it is called a library. As a corollary, if a language/programming paradigm requires frameworks to work, it's a failure right from the start. The problem is that when you throw away all frameworks, you are not employable any more. And maybe that's the solution: find profession where you won't waste your life fighting next fad (which is different every year).

The author specifically mentions Angular - probably that was the last straw. I want to tell you: I feel your pain! You are not alone!

I've been in the field for almost 35 years, and I think I've seen a lot. But Angular really stands out. It's absolutely the worst kludge ever unleashed into the field with so much hype, I can't remember anything like this since EJB, but EJB is a nice piece of engineering compared with this cake. And there's not much choice - others somehow acquired the taste of it, next thing which is going to fall on our heads is polymer (the kludge of comparable proportions). Brace yourselves!

Good that I'm going to retire soon: accepting Angular and friends as a career is going to kill any remaining professional self-respect even if one had some left.

The reason for this unfortunate development (as I see it) is a total lack of culture of professional criticism in programming. People who were supposed to speak out didn't do so.

The beating of web programmers with new languages will continue until morale improves :-) I mean, until somebody figures out that the HTML/CSS/DOM etc make the task nearly impossible, no matter what language.

> Aaronson IS the liberal academic establishment, so it is no mystery that his writing appeals to his peers

I'm afraid you got cause and effect in reverse.

I was following Scott's posts for a while. Most notable feature of those posts: everything he says is predictable. Blog is designed to appeal to the liberal academic establishment, which knows answers to all important questions, and is never in doubt. I don't remember a single example of Scott's opinion which could be deemed controversial in any sense. "Eigenconformism" would be a better name for his blog.

My guess is that they want you to declare map/array arguments as "inout" to be able to add/change things so that the changes are visible by caller. It might not be a bad idea after all.

There's a simple explanation for recent GUI disasters across google applications: Google+. They decided to make a Swiss Army Knife under the banner of Google+, and needed kind of "consistency" of style. Everything is consistency ugly now, and Google+ guy is gone. Situation may improve as they starts dismantling the monstrosity. With respect to search quality - they hired some AI astronauts, neural networks do wonders for them. The goal is to train their system to accommodate astronauts' brains. They say it openly.

what is a typical lifetime of a fad in javascript fremeworking? Will Angular-JS still be able to elicit as much enthusiasm next month? Am I the only one who thinks Angular is a terrible kludge, which tries to turn every host language into even bigger kludge?

If I open a thread "Drop HN", will it be published here? The site did more than enough during the last week to promote hate and intolerance. What do you think?

This is kind of homegrown concept, but unlikely to be entirely new. It has connections to other concepts, but the devil is in details, and it was really difficult to find good syntactic expression. I couldn't do it in any language except dart (at least without ugly workarounds). In any case, it's doesn't seem to be appreciated, I'm glad you like it, thanks!

57, employed. Latest hack: https://github.com/tatumizer/circuit-dart

Listening to good jazz helps to stay in shape(there's some scientific data that proves music activates something in the brain, not sure what exactly, but it seems to work :-).

As someone noted earlier in this thread, there's nothing new in programming for the last 30-40 years. You just need to learn 100 tricks, you learn them early, and then the age makes no difference. What changes is that you don't think of career any more, and think about money much less, which makes you a very bad candidate for bullshit work. You can imagine the consequences.

HN, my congratulations! You managed to destroy a talented person for having a view different from yours. All under the flag of tolerance. Next destination: Gulag. You are almost there. Why is it OK for him to be CTO if he is a people's enemy? Nor can he go to any other place, regardless of position other than a janitor, and even that I'm not sure. "10 years of corrective labor without the right of correspondence" - does it say something to you?