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  • Gnubyte@lemdit.comtoProgramming@programming.devWhat are your programming hot takes?
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    1 year ago

    🌶️🥵Many people consume Facebook meta company’s tech stack wholesale, don’t know how to actually traditionally program their way out of a paper bag, and web dev and devops caused a massive layoff (250k people) at the end of 2022, start of 2023 because it was all vaporware. They consume the same software in droves if the other guy uses it.

    There is an entire subculture around it that is just a bunch of medium.com writers, YouTubers and twitter handles just trying to get the clicks for their ad money. Some of these guys have never written valid software or done anything noteworthy. If you meet them head on you’d find they have enormous egos and can’t find a counter argument when presented with reason.

    I’ll even add on that there are many programmers who don’t know how to code outside a web app.

    Why is something like [react, graphql, react ssr, devops, tailwind, unit tests, containers] vaporware?

    • there are other frameworks even with component libraries that are easier to read the code for large codebases, better maintained, and have cohesive full stack solutions, and even faster to develop in, to name one quasarJS or even just plain ecmascript
    • if you look at the anatomy of these enterprises using these solutions they’ve evolved to have micro front ends requiring armies of workers.
    • devops is a sales term, the actual implementation of it is so contextual that you’d probably find you don’t need a full time job for it half the time and most are relatively easy to setup inside of a business quarter
    • not everything is Facebook scale: unless you’re padding your resume why did some of these get adopted? How complicated does your app need to be? Did you really need to transpile JavaScript for it?
    • unit tests were code to test your code that you’re going to have to functionally test anyways: you’re telling me that you have to write your code…twice? How the hell did this ever get justified to mangers? Why did the culture not evolve into literal automated smoke tests of the actual builds, instead of testing whether a function that is probably type annotated is going to fire anyways???
    • docker/containers suck ass: great that they solved a problem but created a whole new one. we moved to python and JS which were JIT without artifacts and suddenly everything needs a generalized build system to run it. C lang variants and Rust lang compile to a binary you can just run… Ship the small ass binary not an entire container to run your shitty web app

    You know the stuff I don’t hear about?

    • Javascript and Python were steps in the evolution but never the end goal. I’d even say the same of java. There are new solutions but JavaScript in the browser especially should be replaced.
    • eye appeal is buy appeal
    • that eye appeal shouldn’t always mean you need to use a library or framework; vanilla apps work okay too.
    • binaries/artifacts/installer packages > containers
    • automated testing of the actual end product
    • well written logging to the point someone can tell what the application was doing without seeing code
    • using all these compsci algorithms to actually write new products and searches from scratch instead of being a framework baby: do you actually need ELK or Splunk for your search? Really?
    • you probably don’t need MySQL for a lot of projects, I bet you an async library with sqlite would be the same for many of these projects.
    • small teams with feature rich apps using SSR, the value of an SSR web app
    • the value of a SPA
    • the value of traditional desktop software and not using REST APIs





  • I don’t have access to that data. And I don’t won’t to be misconstrued as promoting Elon or his activities (not that you’re doing that but I see the downvotes).

    I’m just explaining what I think he’s doing. It’s what I’d pitch personally if I noticed red voters trend and visibly meme anti EV and I had obligations to shareholders I had to keep.

    People are better off buying EV anyways. ICE vehicles are disgusting. I think people just like to assign large structures like businesses and folks like Elon to their political idealogies. Businesses and governments have to be larger than that because they need to serve people at the end of the day with either product or policy.



  • I’m a fan of looking up articles information especially in regards to far left media. Far right usually is pretty easy to tell it’s fake because it’s so outlandish and off the cuff.

    I looked into some of the guys mentioned in this article to confirm if they’re far right or if they’re actually just some old guy bitching about the way things used to be and going a little too far… No. It was like hardcore racists making insane remarks online. Some of them I couldn’t find but look it up. One of them has a website. Insanity.

    Good article OP.








  • Our ancient legal system trying to lend itself to “protecting authors” is fucking absurd. AI is the future. Are we really going to let everyone take a shot suing these guys over this crap? Its a useful program and infrastructure for everyone.

    Holding technology back for antiquated copyright law is downright absurd.

    Edit: I want to add that I’m not suggesting copyright should be a free for all on your books or hard work, but rather that this is a computer program and a major breakthrough, and in the same way that if I read a book no one sues my brain for consumption I don’t think we should sue an AI: it is not reproducing books. In the same manner that many footnotes websites about books do not reproduce a book by summarizing their content. With the contingency that until Open AI does not have an event where their reputation has to be re-evaluated (IE this is subject to change if they start trying to reproduce books).


  • Those are all expensive, used Thinkpad is below the ground-dirt cheap…$150?!

    My Thinkpad Ultrabook was insanely cheap even with a docking station. I do donate to Pop OS once a year though as a thanks for their work and I recommend the same. It’s like $12 a year on their site and they do great work.

    Trying to get one of their laptops but thats in short order for me, for now.

    Adding on:

    • lack of quick shipping
    • proxied payments like PayPal or apple gpay
    • some use laptop kits that are supposedly cheap
    • hardware different from software if it breaks and there’s no store or big company to ask for a refund from, you’ll be pissed
    • some of the hardware reviews about bugs and their handling of them are damning