Close but not quite.
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All the niche languages have a chicken and egg problem.
Only way around that is to be able to piggy back on C or JavaScript or Java.
AI can’t even spell/grammar check this article lol.
Loonix developers: Now Loonix is windows
Loonix users: booo
… several hours later
Loonix users: yaaaay
/s
I remember running Linux servers for the first time and couldn’t believe there wasn’t a straight forward way to get something to run on startup. Ask glue and duct tape and non portable.
Don’t get me started on the Python situation.
I assume it’s much better now.
With the clown services U hadn’t had to run bare Linux in a long time.
Cue the strip cub scene from the big short.
You don’t have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other people the bear is chasing.
The bar is so low in corporate America you could trip on it.
Just try to be halfway competent, do something useful at work, read a book or two about your industry. You’re already way ahead.
Don’t fall for the hacker news bs.
Lots of millionaires out here that never had a successful startup.
“Where is the customer entity saved to the database?”
Often giving 90% of what you need.
But those junior devs…
It’s decisions.
Ninety five percent is all the decisions made from every person involved.
The fastest delivery I ever encountered were situations where the stakeholders were intimately familiar with the problem and made quick decisions. Only then did speed of coding affect delivery.
In large organizations, PMs are rarely POs. Every decision needs to be run up the flagpole and through committee with CYAs and delays at every step.
Decision makers are outsourcing this to LLMs now which is scary as they are supposed to be the SME.
It’s the same old same old where the generals make decisions but the sergeants (NCOs) really run the army. That’s where I feel leads/principles/staff really make out break the product. They are the fulcrum dealing with LLM from above and below.
Context is never close at hand, it is scattered all over the place defeating the purpose.
MAGA is a death cult. Everything they do accelerates the demise of their way of life and communities.
Nobody with any real money and smarts is going to do that.
Now if this was somehow a crypto play, I’m sure they’d be rolling in it.
Texas is growing rapidly but doesn't have this issue.
However are you sure you want to take the cut in prestige/pay?
In the medtech space there's a huge need for project mangers, etc wish medical experience. So knowing how to code and how to query databases along with all that medical knowledge would be a super power.
However, I can't imagine you'd be happy as a junior engineer churning out react code but maybe?
So they want to get in, get it done, go home. This usually leads to stuff getting done at a steady cadence.
This is a bit sarcastic of course, seeing other ridiculous comments about older engineers.
There's something to be said about people who just want to get their work done in reasonable time with reasonable quality and not chase every new fad like like a dog with ADHD in a squirrel habitat.
- I've found junior engineers super resistant to new tech. Very rigid thinking, there is only way way to do something bc that's all they've ever learned, very religious about tech stacks, crazy strong opinions based on crazy limited experience - lack of work ethic, no call, no show, procrastinating right up until the deadline and then expecting code reviews, merges/releases to work on their schedule -tendency to fuck around and play games etc all day (see above) -limited experience with people from different backgrounds, culture etc.
His background was electrical engineering but it applies doubly in software.
“Why is this dashboard showing this number?”
That’s my concern with any data “insight” magic. How do you debug what it’s telling the users?
That's where they get you.
Not crying any tears.
Vanilla javascript now is way better than the mystery methods in jQuery. Does this call return zero, one or many things? Also what does it return? Who knows! We'll find out at run time!
We're getting there!
I remember looking on in horror as a QA person who was responsible for the install/deploy of some banking software scrolled through the bash/perl script that installed this thing. I think it had to be 20k+ lines of the gnarliest code I've ever seen. I was the java/.net integration guy who worked with larger customers to integrate systems.
My group insisted we should do single sign in in perl script but I couldn't get the CPAN package working. I had a prototype in java done in an afternoon. I never understood why people loved perl so much. Same with powershell. Shell scripters are a different breed.
.Net is usually a second tier target but python ALWAYS has first tier support (along with java and usually go).
I see this as more of a complement to that. However I have worked at places that HATED powershell and we used linqpad for almost all scripting. It worked ok.
Like realtime dashboards/reports as the transactions are coming in.
Think of a SaaS with high usage.
The analytics you're referring to use the more slow moving "ETL all the source data together" and then analyze it.
Different use cases.