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I feel exactly the same way about Memojis, yet people use them and apparently don’t find them as cringy as I do.

I already asked about this in the parent post that refers to Erlang, but do you happen to have a write up by any chance, where you go into more details. I’m super interested! It would be really appreciated. (This is not the first time I hear people praising Erlang in comparison to popular OOP languages)

This sounds fascinating. Do you have a write-up where you go into more details? A couple of examples with before and after perhaps? Seriously that would be amazing.

I've been living in Abu Dhabi (capital of UAE) for the last 12 years and although I started getting more and more annoyed with the country, I can absolutely confirm what you're saying. Safety is almost always at the top of the pros/cons list.

A lot of similar puzzles:

http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes

Wow, dude, your post made me feel VERY incompetent. This happens a lot on HN.

I realize Facebook is not a trivial software, but seriously - this large? I heard this before and I just don't get it.

This is just awesome! I absolutely love it! Bookmarked for life!

This is some very impressive work. Good job!

Good job man, code looks tight, wish I had some more time to jump on this. Keep it up.

EDIT: Btw, do you happen to have a book or some study material on this subject ? Anything you can recommend ?

"NOP (): Does nothing. Seriously." - I love this :)

Yeah same here (it was Counter Strike for me, but still)

This is absolutely true ! I'm new to the iOS development, and while swift is really easy to get into, the API's are a complete mystery. Even building a simple app involves a ton of tutorials/articles and Googling, because one really needs to know the APIs as well as the concepts of doing things. I can write quicksort in swift, but not build a simple app.

What kind of low life do you have to be to do this kind of crap ? Is this what "hackers" do these days ?

This is a strange debate these days. For me TDD made me a much better programmer. I'm not sure how I used to work without it. It saved me on many occasions. It does lead to better quality (from my experience). Frankly I don't see a single downside. Seriously.

Is it hard ? Sure.

As a web developer, that's very strange to me. Honestly game development seems MUCH harder (from what I've experienced). Not sure why that's the case.

Is the name McAfee supposed to be a plus ? Isn't he kinda crazy these days ? That's a red flag in my book.

Well I found lately that asking anything on SO that is not trivial doesn't get an answer. My last 3 questions were up-voted, but never answered. I'm a regular SO user, I know the rules, I'm doing my research, my questions are not subjective, they are "answerable", yet they remain without answers.

This is extremely inspiring. I've been on a streak ever since I read John Resig's post and your comments about your book. I'll be writing code for my side project every day, at least 30 mins. I don't know what it is ... But I'm really freaked out of breaking the chain, it keeps me really motivated. I love it.

Man, I'm a bit frustrated with this whole JS situation in recent days. There are so many frameworks, recommendations, hype - it keeps confusing me.

I mean I don't want to spend time learning a framework that might be dead 2 years from now (remember prototype ?). I really don't see a fit for Angular in my practice. However I'm not sure if I'm just saying that because of pure ignorance. Most of my client side code is pretty much jquery (that I try to keep organized), and it works most of the time. Then I see people referring to that practice as "jquery soup" and I'm starting to think I'm doing it wrong.

A lot of the web apps I write consist of pages with ajax sprinkled here and there (where it makes sense). I think a framework like Ember, Angular or Backbone is an overkill in my case. I don't write SPAs, but then again I see people using it everywhere these days.

Honestly, for my scenario I feel that a framework such as Knockout or ReactJs is a lot more "fitting". I'm sure other devs have been where I am, I wonder what you guys think.

I was working on a project recently (in fact I still am sort of), staying late (really late) working ... and working. At first it was ok, but doing 3 weeks in a row with no weekend and very little break in between (the occasional game session here and there) really got to me. I remember one night I was sitting in the office I looked out of the window (gorgeous view - 35th floor in a sky-scaper in Abu Dhabi) and I just started crying. I had a massive breakdown. I've had panic attacks for the next 2-3 weeks almost daily. Just to clarify, I love coding, I'm coding in my free time, I enjoy it more than anything. This being HN, I'm sure a lot of people can relate.

Honestly If all of this is true, then obviously what happened is wrong, but I don't really see the sexism in this whole thing. Is it the houla-hoops thingy ? Because I gotta tell you if 2 dudes start doing houla-hoops where I work everybody will stop and watch ... Just because it's ... I dunno weird ? funny ? unusual ? Am I missing something ?

Then you have those people that go "NO NO NO It's totally different" ... except it's obvious. It's annoying, laptops use to be very different one from another.

Yeah, I absolutely agree!

This book is legendary! This and Uncle Bob's books Clean Code. A must read for every programmer !

I see your point, however for me It's a pretty safe bet that a dev having experience in multiple languages has a drive to learn. Jumping the bandwagon is not necessary always a bad thing (it could be of course), sometimes it's a sign of curiosity and experimentation.

Agreeing with the comments here and the post - I'd like to add that having experience with many different languages also shows that the dev has a drive to learn, and that's a + in my book.

Sorry, it's just that these days I'm seeing a lot of places they do that kind of stuff (there was even a term for it - can't remember exactly what it was).

Having cleared that, I gotta say, it does look awesome and I wish you best of luck :) !

Is this one of those things to see how many people are going to take interest in your project, when in reality you don't have anything at the moment ? I'm not sure why it looks that way.

If this is not bullshit, I don't know what is!