> it's not like experience is all that important in a brand new field
What brand new field ? There's no such thing. You could be writing drivers for teleporters using a quantum computer for all I care, experience still helps.
I used node for a while, I should have known better, but it sure made a change. Not a good change, but definitely a change. I think this explains it pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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The plough was a lot more influential than the wheel. Without the plough we would never have progressed far enough to need the wheel. It provided the surplus which all over advances depend on.
In the last 100 years the most influential gadget is the washing machine. It released women from the home into the workplace, transforming society. The computer probably ranks second in importance in last 100 years but if the computer/internet combo had done as much good as one would hope then we would be a lot smarter than we are and the given answers would be less ridiculous.
Python and Ruby are similar languages, and yet the cultures around the two are very different. A certain segment of Ruby has moved to node.js now.
It depends on the job. Some jobs it's not relevant, other jobs it is. For a general purpose programmer, the more they understand the better.
Sure, a library for the common problems already exists, but if you can't provide a reasonable stab at the standard stuff yourself, then you have no chance of solving the unique problems that you may run across. Also, if you're familiar with the algorithms used for standard operations: reverse, random shuffle, sort, that kind of thing, then you will recognise when aspects of your problem already have solutions.
You may as well ague there's no point teaching kids to add and subtract by themselves because they can use a calculator.
Finns will understand
Something was rotten in the state of denmark.
Snowden's revelations caused a huge shakeup in the intelligence community. Such as a federal judge ruling that the NSAs blanket collection was unconstitutional. If things were right beforehand, none of this would have happened
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Do you think the people running corporate IT programs are spending their own money ?
No, ok.. well, do you have any evidence that large government run IT programs are more prone to failure than large commercial sector IT programs ?
I think it's more a question of people are not very smart and large scale software development is hard.
> Climate change is either provable or not
Yeah, whatever, I'm sure you're all about the science. No scientific theories are *provable*, gravity, evolution, whatever, they're all theories. It's just that the preponderance of evidence that makes them some theories more likely than others.
How many non-news articles can you possibly print about 3d printing.
I worked for 3d systems in the 90s, it was fun and vaguely novel back then. I have been hearing about this stuff like its the next new thing for over 2 decades, and what are the fantastic advances we've had during that time.. no, don't tell me, please, seriously, don't. We don't get 5 articles a week about virtual reality, or jetpacks, or flying cars,
> I've literally never heard anyone make anything that works using Node
I made a good chunk of the backend of http://www.manything.com/ using node, and it all works
Having said that.. Christ on a bike, I would not use that technology again: it's the most snake pit infested dangerzone I've ever encountered. Writing multiprocess c++ code for transputers with no tool support back in the early 90s was a fucking breeze compared to the extraordinary clusterfuck that is node. Node with javascript/coffeescript on the server gives you new and interesting ways to shoot yourself in the foot and then helps you wipe off the wound with a nice bloody rag you were donated from a leper who died of ebola. It's an exciting environment to be sure, but I'm done with that.
I went down that route. However, I really missed being able to write code like this:
1 do this
2 do that
as opposed to
do_this(function(err,res) { if (err) {something..} else { do_that(res) })
Once your backend gets complicated, may the lord help you.
If you backend is simple, it doesn't matter what language you use.
There is a far superior language you can use on both ends: scala - scala.js is really nice
this guy explained the problem better than i can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And the reason it's bullshit is that it starts from the premise that if you could measure programming ability somehow, its curve would look like the normal distribution.
Programming ability is exactly the kind of thing that does not fall in a normal distribution. It's not even close to a normal distribution. It's more like wealth distribution, there is no meaningful average.
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