Comments

ndotb, 9 months ago to programming in Hear me out: A scripting language that compiles to bash or sh (any suggestions?)

Knock off the childish fucking gatekeeping and go back to reddit. It’s what the wider industry uses.

ndotb, 10 months ago to programming in Hear me out: A scripting language that compiles to bash or sh (any suggestions?)

python is usually the next step up in admin land

python is a pretty standard install on linux systems since so many things like you’re talking about use it

ndotb, 10 months ago to programming in What are your programming hot takes?

You missed one:

• To let others at least have some insight into what you’re doing so you can take a freakin’ vacation every once in a while

ndotb, 10 months ago to programming in [DISCUSS] Pros/cons of videos for technical documentation?

Technical videos have helped me perfect my pronunciation of “umm” and “uhh.”

ndotb, 10 months ago to programming in What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

throw yourself to the wolves

embrace the wolves

ndotb, 10 months ago to programming in What's stopping WebAssembly from effectively replacing JavaScript?

From a historical standpoint, there is also the bad blood of ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight and early Java applets that still leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths. It has a slightly steeper uphill battle to fight.

ndotb, 10 months ago to programming in Why do they keep making new languages

Generally the most supported language on the tool/platform you want to target is the best one. Like SQL on databases, JS/ES in browsers, python in data science related stuff, etc. If multiple are heavily supported then just pick the one that’s the most comfortable.

ndotb, 11 months ago to webdev in Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification

It won’t fly. Not when a popular red meat election year topic is breaking google up and one such year is just around the corner.

ndotb, 11 months ago to programming in is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn

I can think of surgeon examples but I’ve never heard of Recruiters Without Borders. Unless it’s just CapGemini

ndotb, 11 months ago to programming in is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn

Fintech is easy to deal with in this regard.

“do you have code samples you can share?”

“would you be happy if an employee interviewed elsewhere and used your codebase for work samples?”

ndotb, 1 year ago to programmer_humor in Job interview vs job

A more honest code test:

interviewer: “see if you can get this project my nephew made in high school to run”

job: getting the next project their nephew made in high school to run

ndotb, 1 year ago to programmer_humor in Looking for FULL stack developer

PREFERRED:

• PhD in quantum cryptography
• 3 years of janitorial services experience
• Proof of current therapist

ndotb, 1 year ago to programmer_humor in compsci rule

Historical note: the golden age of crazy uncle email forwards made me completely reject capitalized sql statements

ndotb, 1 year ago to programmer_humor in Linus be like...

<span style="color:#323232;">[init]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">defaultBranch = chaos
</span>

ndotb, 1 year ago to programming in Lemmy is in serious need of more devs [CROSS POST]

It’s on my radar and I’m sure it’s on a number of other people’s as well. It just takes a little onboarding time like all good projects.

Worth noting: the ui is in inferno js