Comments by "" (@traveller23e) on "Fireship" channel.

  1. oh yeah, VS is terrible that way, you make three similar changes and the next place you stick your mouse the entire screen is covered up with flashy suggesting that you can barely read the code. And just one touch of "tab" and you've accidentally broken stuff.
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  2. The good news is that at the moment one programmer with the help of AI can do the work of 0,4.
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  3.  @majahanson311  C# dev here, and I really wish they'd never introduced var (statically inferred type). Often times during a peer review when I see the result of a method assigned to a new variable of type var I end up having to call the dev who wrote it to ask what type that particular instance of var is.
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  4. As a dev myself (though mostly not web), it's nice to sleep easy knowing that whatever happens to the company I work for won't really affect me, I get paid the same either way.
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  5. apropos is also very useful. And never forget man.
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  6.  @XDarkGreyX  To be fair though being a developer doesn't necessarily mean having advanced technical knowledge in any specific area. I find AlbertaTech's take on things (particularly in longer videos) to be overall well-informed and fairly accurate as far as I can tell (as a dev, not in the US). However it is worth noting that both channels are fundamentally tech news/opinion channels (+ some meme shorts) and therefore consideration should also be given to the quality of research that went into the videos. AlbertaTech went a lot more into breaking down the paper including pointing out its lack of scientific rigor with regards to how it was published and pointing out fairly obvious issues with the premise and conclusions, whereas Fireship basically just parroted the content at face value.
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  7.  @voidvector  Ironic you mention Java, since it still doesn't have generics working properly in a lot of the more basic classes (methods just return object and stuff, so you lose the type checking). Also, in Java and C# things like lambda expressions keep things from being pure OOP. However, I would posit that that is not a bad thing; pure-OOP is 1) a concept revered by programming philosophers, without much intrinsic merit to the programmer, and 2) a concept people claim to try for yet don't really seem able to consider in concrete terms, sort of like Clean Code or Agile. (Note to clean coders: it's not that I dislike the concept, just it doesn't have any amount of objective measurability and can when unchecked lead to voodoo programming.) One thing I think would be interesting to see would be a language with fully-fledged support for multiple paradigms but with compiler directives forcing you to explicitly label sections as hybrid OOP/procedural or functional or whatever. It would be interesting to see how people react with having to make an explicit decision like that. Actually, I'd propose adding this feature to Powershell, as it could only make it better.
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  8.  henriquemarques6196  I use it on one of my machines, but yes I would definitely agree with your assessment. Regarding abstraction over abstraction, today in a code review I asked a colleague why he'd created a pointless interface rather than using his (newly-created) class directly. I'd already seen that was how the rest of the code was written so I wasn't going to make him remove it on the theory that consistent bad code can sometimes be better than inconsistent good code, but I was curious what he would say. The answer? "Well, it's just a sort of syntactic sugar". As a C# dev, (mostly) unneeded boilerplate is the bane of my life. It's like industry leaders got up one morning and thought, "adding features is too easy, let's make it so instead of making the change in one file you'll always need to make it in six files" smh
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  9.  @Set_Abominae  Though the source code is surely still out there somewhere, so if the demand is there I would be willing to bet it'll resurface.
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  10. No, you the user wouldn't necessarily want that, but I can guarantee you that most software companies would love to pay fewer programmers.
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  11. TS is useful as a tool that helps statically-typed OOP programmers (like myself) to not completely mess everything up when we're forced to do some front-end programming. If you're used to the flexibility of being able to assign anything to anything though I can definitely see how it can be limiting and annoying.
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  12.  @theboringplanet  Oh man. I'm gunna write a "meta-apropos" script just to cover that edge-case.
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  13. "trust me bro" AI isn't a source of information or structurally sound organised data. It can emulate sloppy human-written text, but don't trust the contents to be correct nor expect it to write reliable code. I would expect that asking it to graph a function will lead to incorrect results as well.
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  14. eventually we'll run out of internet to train them on, but it'll be a mess if what they're being trained on is produced in large part by the AIs themselves. They'll just be trained to spit out incorrect combinations of the chewed-of "facts" they ingested.
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  15. Can you post a link or something? If it's interesting it might get you a couple signups or people on your mailing list anyway
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  16.  @Drew1903SG  it's remarkably peaceful down here.
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  17.  @justsomeonepassingby3838  Gah! I hate youtube.
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  18.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  Dotnet is good for userspace programs because the runtime is shipped with Windows, it's decently fast, has automatic memory management, and a nice combination of features from various paradigms. However, cross-platform development is harder because then you have to tell your users they need to install the runtime, and additionally programs in .NET are not exactly fast or lightweight. That's why in systems programming languages like C or C++ are likely to yield better results. Note however that C++ has so many features you're going to have to provide some strict guidelines to keep it from becoming a mess, and C to some extent has the opposite problem. Hence I would expect C# to be cheaper in the end if it can do the job. P.S. The restriction of extension method definitions to static classes sucks.
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  19.  @douglascounts4634  Except there's usually not much typing to begin with and if there is it usually indicates an architectural issue. Like the other day when I needed to modify 7 files in two repos to change the type of a parameter, for instance.
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  20.  @angrysnek4445  As a competent human whose job it is to review PRs written by humans, I would quickly switch to just rejecting Devin's. At least when a human makes a mistake or doesn't really know how something works you can successfully correct them.
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  21. It's been there a long time, I would be surprised if there were any distros that either used an alias passing --no-preserve-root or used an old enough version of rm that it didn't have that guard.
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  22.  @u4yk  I live in a hot climate and have a hardware camera cover just in case, so fk shirts. And trousers.
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  23.  @zy7134  It makes sense to basically anyone except Javascript programmers. Not sure what a nub is though.
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  24.  @superdingo9741  Lol most of the people on my team supposedly spend 30 hours a week as programmers and 10 hours as devops guys. I say "supposedly" because the line between the two can be pretty blurred (as can the line between programming and making business decisions/contacting clients directly to know what they want, for...reasons)
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  25.  @masstronaut  The services industry, although developers seem like the subset of humans worst suited for such a workplace.
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  26.  @proosee  I was a bit like that after my first job. It's an easy trap to fall into when you're in a hellscape with lots of poorly thought out small stories vastly underestimated and strong pressure to do things faster. In my second job the project was well-managed and my scrum master (and immediate boss) was absolutely amazing. A lot of what I learned in the first months in that place could be summerised with the sentence "slow down, don't worry, no one hates you, try to come up with the best long-term solution even if it means taking twice as long".
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  27.  @mawnkey  You poor thing :( Jokes aside I've never actually used emacs, what are its strong suits/the advantages over vim?
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  28.  @jesusmods1  As an artist I could easily see situations where I didn't want to sell tickets at market price. If a particularly famous artist were giving a special concert in a very small venue and there were only 100 tickets available, they could probably be sold at $10,000. However the tradeoff is that then the audience would be restricted to wealthy upper-crust individuals, and that same artist might not want to play to that kind of audience. Or maybe the artist would just figure "eh, I don't need all the money in the world, let me sell the tickets at a more reasonable price". The point is, there are sometimes valid reasons not to price things at the "correct" value according to capitalism. As a side note, the opposite is also true. One of the classic techniques of discouraging activities (e.g. smoking) is to put high taxes on the equipment required. Capitalism doesn't demand those prices, that's society deciding that the sale is problematic. (Note that there are fairer ways to do this, but this is still a very popular method.)
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  29. It won't, chances are companies will be paying Microsoft billions to use AzureDevAI
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  30. If Microsoft wants to, definitely. They get away with a lot... Seriously though, if AI can write code then intellectual property for software needs to be abolished as a concept. There would be no arguments left for keeping it around.
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  31. Lol, with luck they'll just form a consortium centering around a new open-source fork of it and keep that going forward as the mainstream version. Once enough people are on board, free software finds a way. There's a reason Linux is still around when you'd be hard-pressed to find a direct descendant of the original Unix systems.
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  32. The worst is it'll find something on StackOverflow and use that, but then realize it doesn't work because some dipshit just copied an answer from chatGPT.
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  33. As a C# dev my instinct is to agree, however at some level this take is wrong: -Conceptually, the variable name "result" doesn't have to refer to a specific type. It could be a number in one instant and some function a few milliseconds later. -From a data perspective, types don't always exist. In scripting, everything is a stream of characters (unless you're using Powershell). In C programming, fundamentally everything is sets of bits in multiples of char. Sometimes it makes sense to treat 'a' as just a number, or to treat ints as just sequences of bits etc.
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  34.  @balala7567  Lol, I don't even argue based on the contents of the system, I argue based on the principle. Most people know and refer to the system as Linux, Linux is objectively a better-sounding name than any the FSF have suggested, and the idea of naming stuff based on the components is just not how most things work.
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  35.  @maxstrong1999  Looks like it, why do you ask? The disadvantage to making Chrome MIT vs GPL is that MIT on a high-demand product that several competing companies are involved in is that it's liable to lead to the problems X had back in the day
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  36.  @pi4795  Also closed-source software should not be copyrightable. If you want the copyright, you should be required to publish the source.
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  37.  @AshesWake-sf7uw  I watched a colleague import a package without looking into it at all because he wanted to format filesizes in a log line in a nice, human-readable format. He then spent 45 minutes trying to get chatGPT to explain how to use the package. He was my team lead at the time and had several more years of experience than me as a dev.
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  38. my poor scrum master recently resorted to writing a SO post, and no replies yet :(
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  39.  @gonzalobruna7154  Training the model is probably far more expensive than running...it's now that they get to recoup the cost of training
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  40. You say that, but I absolutely think that some things shouldn't be resellable, particularly high-demand tickets purchasable online and the like. If you do allow resale, you make it so that the only ones buying from you are bots ready to make a resale at a huge markup. I know there's an argument for "but what if you end up not being able to go?" and I'd say the obvious solution is to allow selling the ticket back to the original vender minus a small return fee so it could then be sold last-minute to others.
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  41.  @kuda1532  Honestly they should standardise app packaging formats so that any packages provided via google play could also be provided at virtually no additional effort on F-droid, Samsung's store, etc
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  42. I think it should be GPLed and given to some free software group or other but with a yearly development budget paid by google as a slow fine.
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  43.  @homan-awa  vulnerable? To what?
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  44. To be fair to your client, rewriting code generally takes roughly as long as writing it the first time.
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  45. one does have to wonder to what extent Google is already doing that
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  46. ehh...they will have to be good but not necessarily productive (at least in a measurable way.
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  47. Not quite, he missed out on bitfields, several of the keywords (static, register, inline, volatile...depending on C version), and completely omitted mention of the CPP which is pretty important to say the least. Also, he didn't mention all the datatypes, nor go into some of the more complex topics like integer promotion, which overflows are undefined behavior and which are defined, and the challenges of having potentially different byte sizes on different platforms.
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  48.  @coherentpanda7115  Vim does too ;)
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  49.  @dheerajvithalkar  Much like with houses you can absolutely buy software, you just have to have the money. Software changes hands all the time. Ultimately most of us live in a largely pay-as-you-go world. There is also a philosophical debate to be had regarding what it means to own software, which I suppose ties into debates regarding owning anything else. At the end of the day ownership seems to be a largely cultural concept I believe, but that's a whole other can of worms.
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  50. Why mention WSL for windows as a lifesaver right after claiming most games and proprietary software don't work on Linux, failing to mention Wine and Proton?
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