Comments by "Handsome_Hero" (@illegalsmirf) on "Stefan Mischook" channel.

  1. 'Excellent communication skills' means the ability to decipher corporate-speak and straight out hypocrisy. It is a form of deception, it is its own language within a language. It doesn't mean having a clearly communicated purpose or process, being true and honest, having integrity or empathy. You need to emphasize this point more. Good communication skills in a corporate setting does not mean the same thing as it does in a normal human situation.
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  2. The White House also says you should let kids change their gender.
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  3. Commodore 64
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  4. Everyone is using frameworks now anyway - including with PHP, Ruby etc. It's just that Javascript has more frameworks than those other languages. But basically everyone is just hiding behind a big bloated framework these days and not actually writing any real code.
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  5. JavaScript is more painful than butt seks.
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  6. What?! You mean I can't make $900k as a point-and-click WordPress 'dev'?
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  7. Okay, now go out and find a butcher who needs a website.
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  8. PHP, jQuery and WordPress?
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  9. 'A lot of people being laid off are not developers' Oh that's okay then!
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  10. Invest in stonks lol
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  11. PHP core is nice indeed but I don't see any essential difference between strict OOP-style PHP (as used in all the major frameworks) and any other strictly OOP language (C#, Java) besides minor syntax.
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  12. ChatGPT will do all your Javascript for you, regardless of framework. React sucks Dawn Keebals, BTW
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  13. 'Low ball' you mean like $100,000 a year lol? Inflation and greed are rampant
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  14.  @joecater894  That's ridiculous
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  15. There is no best language, so you need to learn all of them LOL.
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  16. Nerdlings is a really good word to describe them lol
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  17. Why learn Rust?
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  18.  @PapaVikingCodes  What's wrong with the syntax, you don't like using the dollar sign?
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  19. Web Dev is hell. A horribly, nastily overcomplicated hellscape that is totally incomprehensible for one mind to grasp. But why bother if you get get $500 per 20 minute phone call?
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  20. WordPress, PHP and jQuery.
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  21. Brush up on your social skills because you're going to be spending the rest of your life providing personal services (serving food and so on) to the rich.
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  22. Totally agree - CSS sucks balls.
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  23. If you're broke in your 70s you got some SERIOUS problems
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  24. Because it's all point and click. Want new functionality, or a new look? Point and click install a plug-in and you're done. No programming skills necessary :-)
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  25. Now and in the past as well. It's never been easy.
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  26. That's interesting, ChatGTP didn't tell me that about PHP.
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  27. Uncle Stef sold out / checked out a long time ago.
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  28.  @brainites  The problem is that you aren't asking the right questions.
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  29. All the changes from PHP7 onwards have been about making PHP more like Java with deeper and deeper layers of OOP boilerplate and abstraction.
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  30. Is it easier to make money selling online 'how to code' courses than actually writing code for a living?
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  31.  @neomangeo7822  someone who does something useful.
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  32.  @dragenn  I suppose you have better employment prospects with React?
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  33. No.
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  34. No way. @StefanMischook 
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  35. Coding is crap
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  36. 6 - 8 months to become a developer? Even if that were possible, good luck getting a job. Agree with the rest though.
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  37. Only if you want to learn half a dozen frameworks, multiple versions of JavaScript (TypeScript), how to do the same thing 12 different ways, and be endlessly bombarded with new frameworks, switching back and forth between them, for the rest of your life!
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  38. Airtable, the latest fad. Even has its own Javascript library/framework. LOL. Being a web developer means you just have to jump onboard with whatever the latest fad is. You're never a 'real' programmer, just a marketer.
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  39. What about jQuery?
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  40. Development sucks.
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  41. All corporate IT is unnecessarily complicated and highly political
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  42. How do you feel working with younger devs who are all about transgender and memes and other childish stuff? Do you feel old and useless?
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  43. Spending a lot of time in meetings, talking bullsh!t, getting into arguments and office politics.
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  44. I still find Google and Stack Overflow more useful than ChatGPT.
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  45. Going from truck driver to coder is like going from productive career to unproductive career. What our societies need are fewer software monkeys and more people in 'real' jobs.
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  46. Sounds like your senior marketing director has no idea what he's talking about and suffers from verbal diarrhoea.
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  47. Soft skills aren't 'hard' they just require you to hold your nose and say things you don't really mean all the time (hi, how are you! hope you're well! sorry I can't attend the Slack meeting as I have Covid!), learn to kiss ass, etc
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  48. I'll be giving serious thought to suicide at 50
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  49. You do seem like a jaded old PHP dev
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  50. every experienced developer is basically creating their own framework LOL thereby making themselves 'indispensable' because they are the only one who understands the code
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  51.  @LionMister  Seems like you have partial knowledge and you're a casualty of ChatGPT. Ask it about server side events and Ajax in combination with PHP.
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  52. No.
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  53. ChatGPT
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  54. LGBTQIA+
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  55. Developer salaries are already far too high. Making 20 times what an actual useful worker does per hour is obscene.
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  56. Oh really, you know everything there is to know about all those languages so you're learning another one?
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  57.  @Kodlak15  well then, there’s an idea before superficially learning half a dozen languages try to learn just one of them thoroughly
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  58. Most people will struggle to get a job anywhere at any rate, never mind jump straight into a well-paid freelance job.
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  59. Have you tried ADHD meds?
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  60. Where the sexy ladies at…
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  61. YES. PLEASE. Omg I hate JavaScript so much
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  62. the only way to make out of coding is to sell courses on how to code - it's a bit like a Ponzi scheme
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  63. C++ is never a good language to learn
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  64. That's exactly what the world needs - another Javascript framework!
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  65. Nah.
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  66. How about no?
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  67. Too much developer copium
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  68. And regular wage slaves hate them for it.
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  69. You need to know at least six programming languages to get a job. (Or successfully pretend to.) Then if you get a job you spend most of your time in meetings or Googling/reading the docs. I don't know why anyone wants to be a programmer.
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  70. I hate Python. It's used in some Linux scripts and other things (Ansible) but you say it's only for data science? I wish it was.
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  71. Tell the truth: programming is sh!t
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  72. If the only work in your area is .NET and other Microsoft will you do that instead? :-)
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  73. Anyone who is selling 'mentoring' obviously can't get a real job.
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  74. They have crazy requirements because they don't know what they're talking about. Just be nice and charming to the HR ladies.
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  75. At least you're not a master debator.
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  76. Envious... ? lol it is a relentless rat race. Online 24/7, 7 days a week. No escape. It's a dystopian hell - no wonder nobody wants to have kids any more. No future.
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  77. If they can fully automate OOP design models and JavaScript it would make the world a much better place to live in.
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  78.  @andrewdillard5961  but why not for anything new? It simplifies and reduces the amount of JS you have to write. What’s the advantage of using verbose vanilla JS?
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  79. ! should mean 'not' ... but in CSS everything is backwards
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  80. Rust is for LGBTQIA+ . You must dye your hair a fluorescent colour, get a nose piercing and have ambiguous s3xuality. Else you are just tranzfobe and Trump voter
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  81. Yes
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  82. you can be a WordPress developer for $40k a year lol
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  83.  @Question-nv8mh  work for small advertising agency
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  84. Okay. And if you're doing PHP use PDO instead of mysqli.
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  85.  @brezanac  Oh wow, so basically PHP is dead and you're using 'the latest thing' instead.
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  86.  @brezanac  Huh?
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  87. dayum!
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  88. In exchange for memory optimization (which may very well be redundant for most people as they have gigabytes of free memory) you get an enormous increase in complexity and time to code. You'd be better off spending that time learning how to optimize performance in an easy to learn language like Python.
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  89. Why?
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  90.  @yalcinozer4434  Why do you 'need' to learn it?
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  91.  @yalcinozer4434  Great answer and I agree, if anyone is forced to learn something they don't like or can't make sense of then it is a bad place to be
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  92. A WordPress 'developer' LOL
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  93. Overcome the suicidal depression!
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  94. shut up and get to the point boring asshole
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  95. You don't just 'learn JavaScript' or 'learn PHP', you need to learn the intricacies of the frameworks, which change every few months. If you insist on specializing you limit your employment chances. If you insist on trying to learn several, you can never master any of them. Web dev is probably the most competitive area of coding so you can't expect great wages even if you do get work. It really sucks and you are a cruel person if you recommend it to anyone.
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  96. It's still cheaper than employing a front end junior to do your grunt work for you.
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  97. Most developers will never be millionaires.
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  98. If it's good money you're looking for, learn to be a big time bullshitter ... agile coach or scrum master or other middle management / management consulting shit. Basically, learn to talk shit that other people want to hear and make flattering spreadsheets.
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  99. PHP, WordPress, jQuery - you don't need anything else 😀
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  100. Dayum. Being ready for the worst does NOT help you psychologically. I can confirm that you spend the rest of your life living in fear. Depression follows, along with a sedentary lifestyle and a much earlier death. Boom and bust capitalism does nobody any favours, my boy.
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  101. Stefan looks like he is due to retire soon so it shouldn't worry him. But if programmers rely on doing manually tasks that can be easily automated then they are definitely getting paid too much. Life should always be made easier, not more difficult to financially privilege a small number of people.
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  102. Hope you aren't ripping them off
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  103. Even better yet, learn how to automate writing code with AI. Save everyone the pain and hassle of learning how to do the same thing 15 different ways :-)
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  104. Yeah... it's tough for people who aren't 'hooked up'. But then I guess society always needs a lot of dropouts, losers etc so that a tiny minority can get gratuitously overpaid.
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  105.  @silicondigital1542  It's all about who you know / blow
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  106. Will JavaScript frameworks replace PHP?
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  107. Don’t need your stinking money anyhow!
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  108. You have to have super skills in dealing with bullsh!t, frustration and dealing with hopelessness
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  109. That's true. 75% of Americans still had jobs even when others were starving to death. Natural selection, baby - survival of the fittest!
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  110. Yes. If you're 40 or older, you just look silly trying to get into all the latest fads. It's a young person's industry.
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  111. $200 an hour LOL and we wonder why everything is expensive nowadays
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  112.  @smithlock6261  it's ridiculous money, everyone is so greedy nowadays and that is why everything is so much more expensive
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  113.  @Matt-m3y-r4u  You don't appear to realize that developers charging excessive fees are part of the gouging and greed component of the mix. It's just too easy to make the code difficult to understand for others and thereby make yourself 'essential'
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  114. Offers, or solicitations to submit a CV from recruiters?
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  115. The real problem isn't automation (and making work in general easier), but how to solve the distribution of wealth when people aren't able to earn money any more. (Or they are earning less.) There's nothing worse than making life difficult for the sake of creating highly-paid jobs.
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  116. So is PHP. Use Composer or not? Autoload classes or not? If do, what autoloading convention (there are dozens, hundreds, MILLIONS)? Which convoluted framework to base on? Which elaborate system of OOP to use? Declare strict types or no? All of this nonsense for a website ROFL
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  117. The future will be low-code, AI and automation. The endless proliferation of complexity and new languages will end, and programmers will become deskilled.
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  118.  @LionhartM  'In summary, PHP is a capable language for web development, but the suitability of PHP for a specific web application depends on the project's requirements and goals. For many web applications, PHP is a strong and practical choice. However, for more specialized or resource-intensive applications, you might explore other languages or technologies that better align with your needs.'
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  119.  @god_bika  Listen to yourself, brother. A space ship? You're creating websites, right? Just to be clear and make sure we're on the same page here. Can you explain to me why making websites needs to be made even more ostentatiously and decadently complicated than it already is? You're not writing code to put a man on the moon.
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  120. No, you need to learn 'the latest thing' - which includes doing the same thing in at least 12 different ways, depending on what's currently in fashion / what your company prefers at any given time.
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  121.  @rl6382  No.
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  122.  @rl6382  No way
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  123. We're all doomed.
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