Comments by "Nick" (@NicodemusT) on "ThePrimeTime" channel.

  1. For now.
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  2. The developer community have always been insufferable. Back in the day, they would swear up and down if you didn't gracefully handle JS being turned off, you were a bad developer. Today's equally gatekeeping developers wouldn't even know what to say to that concern, and think 7 forms of unit testing while never asking the user once what they want is "the way." So excuse me while I don't care at all what the developer community thinks.
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  3. Yeah this is a weird take. CLIs already had their renaissance in early 2000s.
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  4. Not before Sony sues for likeness
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  5. DHH is the most useless member of the Rails team. Can't say that though.
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  6. Honestly, this slow boil to having every developer do 1 type of thing and never venture into other elements of their industry is the actual problem. User experiences were way more interesting when programmers and designers didn't silo themselves away from each other. "DevOps" is just another example of encouraging specialization over comprehensive understanding of the entire project.
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  7. There were certainly edge cases and IT departments, but there are more browsers without javascript today than there ever were. I mentioned this in another reply, but it was removed for some reason – there are a number of low cost devices in poor countries that only read text. The only way to overcome a React SPA is to literally rely on a intermediary device that community centres and villages have to share to take screenshots of the website, so that it can be OCR'd and read that way.
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  8.  @Spinikar cry when you have to write cold fusion, perl or ASP 1.0.
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  9. PHP used to be hated way more, for good reason. Now the hate is pretty much just from people who don't understand the history of the internet.
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  10.  @mattymattffs  There are actually more browsers without javascript now than there ever was. Netscape Navigator/Internet Explorer dominated the late 90s and early 2000s, with Opera, Lynx and a few others taking the lower margins. These all had JS (with exception to text browsers), unless otherwise disabled for whatever reason. Today, most screen readers in poor countries are text only, to the point where they often need a intermediary device to properly snapshot a page, and OCR the text to the cheaper devices. So it's still very relevant.
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  11. So basically a 50% increase in technical debt. I Hope that warm feeling in your heart feels good enough to write code twice.
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  12. So can you explain how the entire WordPress plugin directory runs without any tests, yet powers 50% of the web? Seems crazy that 50% of the web runs problem free, while you're writing tests on a website or app no one even uses?
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  13. Netscape Navigator 4 was the final boss of browsers. Act right
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  14. DevOps is a PsyOp
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  15. My eyes roll into the back of my head with each one of these model names. You can judge the level of self-endulgence by how dumb and campy each one is.
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  16.  @i_dont_want_a_handle  you're denying the last 3 years of AI développement?
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  17.  @OrganicDev  I think denying what's been going on for the last while is WILD. I can write a paragraph to copilot and it writes fully functional components. If you explain what you want, it does a very good job. Saying that's not gonna get any better is wild.
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  18. TDD is the only thing lazy and experienced programmers can agree on. No one loves TDD more than a lazy programmer. TDD is easy - so easy it's the one thing AI nails perfectly nearly always. But if you're lazy, writing a bunch of asserts is a great experience and makes you feel accomplished. These people pretend WordPress Plugin Directory doesn't exist. Has millions of plugins, powers over half of the web. No unit tests in sight. But TDD people preach until they pass out, refusing to see that plenty of people just don't need it or find that it doesn't actually test the important things. And if you think you're so skilled a developer and that's why you're pro TDD, remember I can literally run /tests and copilot will write all of these tests for me. Doesn't this prove that TDD is simpleton work? All that being said, I'm now writing tests for my tests because I don't understand basic logic. Dave is the type of guy who came to my company, forced a process and "found a way to make it work", didn't see it through and left thinking he solved a problem. When he says "TDD can be done on embedded systems", prove it. Start a course on how you know for sure its possible. Because when I talk to embedded engineers, they don't tend to agree.
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