Comments by "T J" (@TJ-hs1qm) on "ThePrimeTime" channel.

  1. Kotlin is filling the void on the JVM that Scala should have occupied. Sadly, Scala underwent a series of political and cultural upheavals, but its capabilities are on an entirely different level. It laid the foundation for many of the newer languages, including Java itself, Kotlin, Go, and Rust. You can't go wrong with either one of them. Clojure and OCaml also offer high-paying job opportunities.
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  2. I Learned Haskell In 15 Years was headlining Hackr news last week :D
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  3. Siemens
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  4. The daily frontend drama 😅
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  5. the market is dry atm and you compete against Seniors with 10 years and degrees. No silver bullet. Get a degree or find a commercial project like SurrealDB and start contributing. Do this for a year. If you are good they will notice you.
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  6. He's probably mistaking emotional resilience with boredom. Many things in commercial swe are just that: boring, especially solving infra stuff, writing glue code for the gazillions time. I use AI much more sparsely in my own projects, then when I'm on the job.
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  7. It's sad how supposedly clever people as software development like to think of themselves have no clue how capitalism works.
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  8. 6:20 is that braket < | > notation from quantum physics?
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  9. looks good, I like!
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  10. Every time I'm looking for a new job I feel like a street hooker.
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  11. DAWs could benefit from Rust where any vst plugin can crash a recording session.
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  12. Because it's Scala native, not Scala
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  13. Fresh reaction material for your nvim highness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW0BSgzr2AM
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  14. The Visitor Pattern is just another attempt to solve the Expression Problem: The visitor pattern is a solution to a more general design problem: I have a hierarchy of different classes. Each class supports various common operations. We would now like to extend that hierarchy, without having to change the existing hierarchy (e.g. because it is defined by a library we do not have the source code to). We can add more classes, which must support all required operations. We can add more operations, which must be supported by all classes in the hierarchy. When designing a hierarchy, we can choose which of the two extension directions we want to make easy. (Trying to do both is called the Expression Problem and is extremely tricky.) google: does-the-visitor-pattern-prevent-the-need-to-modify-existing-code-when-adding-ne
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  15. Category Theory "very easy" mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4xJtAAUiIE&list=PLuPevXgCPUIMbCxBEnc1dNwboH6e2ImQo&index=17
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  16. Are people still enacting the Escape Meta Alt Control Shift vs. vi browser war in 2025.... nostalgia 😂 I'm team vi, but you could emulate vi inside Emacs if necessary. As the saying goes: Emacs is a great operating system, it lacks only a decent editor!
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  17. Mixing TDD with FP is my approach, it helps me break down problems into smaller pieces that I can easily wrap my head around. Tests also double up as documentation, like google maps for new team members.
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  18. Spark pipelines can be run without any real Scala skills, the majority of data analysis is run in Python now a days. I'd say the job market for less known languages is just smaller, so big players as Disney Streaming, will easily skew the salary curvy. There's also still a lot of Scala in finance, fraud detection and in online gambling (Malta). specialized fields tend to hire only the best.
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  19. I think the endeavor is nobel but hopeless ... Jevons Paradox, named after the English economist William Stanley Jevons. It states that technological improvements that increase efficiency in the use of a resource will tend to lead to an overall increase in consumption of that resource, rather than a decrease. This is because the increased efficiency makes the resource less expensive, which in turn encourages people to use more of it.
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  20. This is pure propaganda of the capitalist class, just too obvious. Since when do investors care about humanity??? But little people will still want to believe that crap. Almost like when someone held hostage believes that he will be released soon. Just this last final investment to automate the sh.. out of you, then everything will be ok. For them.
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  21. Git-flow vs. CI CD is like batching vs streaming
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  22.  @SuperDrainBamage  because we could share the work between us. And we could keep the fruit of our labor to ourselves instead of having to feed the capitalist middle man.
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  23. Programming is fighting entropy.
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  24. 2h commute just to spend the day in video conferences.. next joke pls..
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  25. I'm not defending Robert C Martin here, but all he did was to collect a bunch of widely accepted programming rules (mainly from the OO world of his generation**) under his brand Clean Code. I think each of these rules has lineage in the early days of (OO-) programming. So these rules are decades old, but many still hold true in the context of business applications. ** The DRY principle idea for example is from the 1999 book The Pragmatic Programmer, and in the 2nd editions they even try to clarify the original idea... which goes beyond copying & pasting of code, as they see it.. paraphrasing “DRY Is More Than Code" In the first edition of our book, we failed to adequately convey the full meaning of "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY). Many misinterpreted it as solely applicable to code, believing it meant "avoid copying and pasting lines of code." While this is a part of DRY, it's a relatively minor and insignificant aspect. DRY goes beyond code and encompasses the duplication of knowledge and intent. It's about expressing the same idea in different places, perhaps in entirely different ways.
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  26. Crowdstrike needs to be the first person in the room so that they can act like the boss. If other people show up before crowdstrike, there's a possibility that they'll somehow prevent crowdstrike from being the boss. For this reason, crowdstrike integrates with the boot process in ways that most software doesn't. Their ability to monitor and intervene against all software on the system also puts them in a position to break all software on the system.
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  27. AI is not an acting agent here. The ones replacing people is not AI, but people of the owning class. For them, AI looks like every other tool for turning money into more money. But even if the owning class is not specifically targeting working-class coders, it's the millions of middle-class office jobs that they are after. This is where the money is. However, if millions of people are going to be made disposable in every industrialized country, including India, how well will the rest of the economy do? People without jobs are generally bad customers. Of course, this is going to affect demand for coders and lower their salaries. I'm not saying this is going to happen soon, but don't think for a second that this isn't going to happen once the tech stack is ready. And the owning class is pouring tons of money into this project as we speak. The clock is definitely ticking.
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  28. Nobody is mentioning Scala native ?
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  29. Tagless initial encoding isn't the only way, try Object Algebras aka tagless final
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  30.  @donk8961  that's why they get hired, to generate pofit, now. People with mony make money from money, if IT dies the'll turn to another industry to cash in. The beauty of capitalism where money is a social construct protected by the state and military power but has no natural boundary. Workers with their salary will always be in the way of generating more profits.
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  31. more like copying Scala. It had all these features implemented on the JVM around 10 years ago. With some heavy inspiration from Haskell and Erlang 😉 Java and C# are now somewhat catching up
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  32.  @Crow-EH  yea, John A De Goes himself has moved on to Rust. There's no money anymore in Scala.
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  33. the blue box is nuts. What did you do to turn it off?
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  34. thx!
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  35. not that it matters but I remember the open-closed principle from way back, way before Robert C. Martin ever used it. It was Bertrand Meyer who coined the term and has been a rule in OO programming ever since.
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  36. Scala has union types and GADTs too😉
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  37. you can call me a veteran backend dev. . who is now trying to rebrush his CSS. But I haven't found one single tutorial that could teach me how to produce and debug CSS reliably. also current LLMs suck at CSS too
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  38. love FORTH !
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  39. It's the capitalist class against workers.
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  40. Kind of the elephant in the room: Nobody will be interested in hiring an expensive programmer for anything that AI is able to do for a fraction of the costs. We will see this sort of AI in 10 years from now. If you are just starting out as a career developer, you should think twice.
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  41. When I think about how to design a function I look at these factors Can I cut down the dimensions of my function (as in dimension reduction)? Because reasoning about one input parameter is significantly easier than ten. I also take a look how my input values correlate. When they change, do they change independently or not. For example, when a person moves to different home, the street name, number, zip code and city tend to change simultaneously, but never their e-mail address. So maybe factor those out in something we call "Address Type" and "E-Mail Type" representing these uncorrelated multi dimensional concepts, so that I can pass in things that are highly correlated into my function (address and email), thereby reducing the number of input parameters and my cognitive load. After having figured out the degree of correlation between my input variables, I decide whether my function should really depend on two orthogonal variables, which could change for different reasons, meaning that my function is maybe doing too much. But all this always depends on the use case. If someone would move on to work for another company the work e-mail is probably also going to change with the address, which makes the e-mail correlate again with the address.
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  42. He updated the FORTRAN code 3 days ago... seen in commit hash 86d6dc84dc832e6eae860473e3a88088fedc37de old len: 100 new len: 300 comment: fix fortran clipping strings 😊
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  43. Our industry could have gone Green a long time ago, but we keep wasting compute and cooling energy because of how inefficient our code is. Overall I think, that criticizing these rules is a very good thing. But then again, you will always have to deal with the... Jevons Paradox, named after the English economist William Stanley Jevons. It states that technological improvements that increase efficiency in the use of a resource will tend to lead to an overall increase in consumption of that resource, rather than a decrease. This is because the increased efficiency makes the resource less expensive, which in turn encourages people to use more of it.
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  44. I come from Haskell, Scala so I know types. The first thing I noticed, and without following the social media bro hype language bubble in general, is how confusing and verbose the Rust syntax looks.
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  45. I disagree having to build stuff for other people in exchange for money because you need money because everything you need to survive is owned by other people, sucks, always.
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