Comments by "John Smith" (@JohnSmith-op7ls) on "ThePrimeTime" channel.

  1. Expect it to happen, a lot. It’s normal. Power gets consolidated too much, and eventually the slaves and peasants revolt. And not by voting for the political party that didn’t win the time before. By making consequences visceral. History is littered with this cycle.
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  2. Then you’re doing it wrong. Don’t know why younger generations like to brag about how their mass resume spamming approach didn’t work, as if that was somehow unexpected. Must be an attention thing.
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  3.  @notlekrut It might die but not for a long time. Too much existing infrastructure that orgs are loathe to update, even if it’s a seamless and easy swap. Then you also have a lot of orgs that like the idea that they can pay another org for official support for this, even if it buys them little to nothing. Half of what these middle and upper middle management do is just box checking and ass covering.
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  4.  @VelvetSage Most bubbles don’t burst, they deflate
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  5. Is that the new “military grade” meaningless label for things now. The “milspec” of tech?
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  6. These people lie and exaggerate so idiots will watch their videos. And even if they did spam their resume to 600 companies, who cares, that’s not how you job hunt. You need to tailor your resume and cover letter for each job and only after realistically determining if you’d be someone they’d want to hire. It also means not applying for listings that say they’ve already had hundreds of applicants, unless you’ve got an absolutely amazing resume and interviewing skills, because these HR departments and hiring managers aren’t going to waste time interviewing 500 people for a simple tech job. If you go the lazy route and spam out the same, usually badly made resume, you deserve to get mass rejected.
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  7.  @juanjosefarina Then it’s not easy. Easy requires really good design, really well thought out everything, that’s what makes things intuitive and difficult to misuse. Git was slapped together by the type of devs who think making things intuitive, straight forward, and easy is a threat to their ego which is built around knowing obscurity and thinking that makes them smart. That or they just didn’t care.
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  8. This article is basically: “I somehow don’t realize everything has quirks, limits, and use cases so I’m pretending only htmx does.”
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  9. And nothing is intuitive, they couldn’t even name things intuitively. Using synonyms for two different commands that do tangibly different things is just lazy.
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  10.  @freeottis  Popular opinions? If they were popular you wouldn’t need censorship. The same way legitimately popular anything doesn’t need paid bots and shills.
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  11.  @auxiliaryboxes  With your reading comprehension, no wonder it’s hard for you. I’d guess most things are hard for you lol.
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  12. ⁠ @ZM-dm3jg Yeah once you’ve been a developer for like 15 years, you’ve been around long enough to understand how much of this stuff is overhyped, trend-chasing, and recycling old tech/patterns and pretending they’re new. Programming has a lot more in common with fashion than most realize. But if you haven’t been doing this long enough, you’re unlikely to see the pattern repeat enough to see what’s really going on and instead, you latch onto things for the wrong reasons.
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  13. Dumb. “The problem” they claim doesn’t even mention a problem. It just says they think it will be free (nothing is free) to have per user database, therefore, per user databases. It’s is a pseudo-intellectual version of “I made it because I can, now let me scramble to rationalize it.”
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  14. People to manage cloud services, people to manage the dev pipelines, people to audit and optimize. And it’s all changing faster than most DIY solutions. I’ve had Azure consultants, who work for MS, and whose job it is to listen to your needs/questions then recommend what services they have to best compose your infrastructure and even they didn’t know about lots of things because MS is churning through changes so fast.
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  15. Git is the JavaScript of source control. It mostly sucks, pretends to be easy while hiding unnecessary complexity, but got so widely adopted that we’re all stuck with it,
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  16.  @zuck9090  Lol, what? I lived in a completely different era? So you’re saying I’m dead and somehow typing this from the afterlife? No wonder you guys can’t find jobs lol
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  17. Like most coding content creators with over half a million subs, he wants to just make low effort content all day and sell ads and courses. Does he even really code anymore?
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  18. ⁠ @thewiirocks  Mercurial is so much better than Git but unfortunately tooling and platform support for it is really lacking and that alone makes it not feasible for a lot of orgs. It’s one thing to convince them to change for the better but if their tools and cloud dev ops pipeline doesn’t support it, game over.
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  19. Of course. It’s not a charity donation. Investments are done for ROI.
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  20. No, we like complexity. Makes is feel smart to know something most people won’t bother to learn. Not because it’s useful, but because we can feel smug about it.
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  21. Nearly everything new is just old/boring with a new name and a different coat of paint on it. There’s too much desperation to reinvent the wheel for attention or because people don’t study their history and think they’ve discovered something new that’s not.
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  22. Programming content creators should stop clickbaiting
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  23. He/Him Gay
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  24. GraphQL is just another one of those poorly thought out things that got popular because so many devs love to crawl up into the butt cheeks of big tech companies and assume if they’re doing it, it must be the best, and also they’ll seem smart if they do it too.
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  25.  @someman7 Flexibility is always a trade off, it’s not free. If you don’t know for a fact that you need that level of flexibility, and it’s worth the cost, don’t do it. Way too many devs love to choose stack and design for hypothetical future requirements that 98% of the time never become needed, and they carry that technical baggage around for nothing.
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  26.  @jhoughjr1  Oh I’d be wiling to bet I’ve gone further than you
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  27. Asian Indians are taking A LOT of jobs, because they work for cheap. So yes, AI is taking jobs
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  28.  @auxiliaryboxes  Your reply reeks of arrogance. Sure, let me just write up an in depth guide on effective resume writing, job hunting, and how to interview. Because you all asked so nicely and there aren’t already countless resources that cover these things on the web and YT. Hey, maybe I can write all your resumes for free too, then give you all individualized tips on finding jobs, the best ways to apply, and how to do well in interviews. I’ll even toss in doing mock interviews for practice. I mean, I sure wouldn’t want some rude randos in a YT video comment thread to think I’m lying, how could I live with myself?!
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  29. Managing 3 devs is not a full time job, unless you seriously hired the wrong people. Unless you’re a small startup, you probably have an existing manger or even the CTO who can handle an extra couple of meetings per week plus whatever review process and admin busywork for 3 more staff. It would be unlikely you’d hire a new manager for such a small team. Usually they farm those duties out to a team lead which is an awful role but getting popular due to the cost cutting of making a senior dev pull triple duty as a dev, manager, and usually a PM as well.
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  30. Imagine beating so sad that the master/slave naming convention bothers you, or worse, you pretend it does to virtue signal. As if naming things that is actually causing people to be enslaved somewhere. If one iota of that wasted effort was put into stopping actual slavery, out less people would be free of a life of misery. But I guess showing off for attention is just as worthy a cause.
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  31. @ Writing code for video content is contrived if not scripted. Every full time coding content creator does that
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  32. Funny how all these orgs run by woke, anti-capitalist types sure want to profit off you. And before you say Mozilla is a non-profit, go look up the countless ways people directly profit off non-profits
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  33.  @TAP7a  It’s a financial investment, why else do they do it? Of you don’t expect a return, that’s just called charity.
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  34.  @sutirk  Yeah, you don’t know what capitalism is. It’s fine, just don’t use words you don’t understand. You’ll embarrass yourself less.
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  35. Why are people trying so hard to make “cooked” a thing. Just stop with taking old slang and acting like it’s new. That’s what hipsters do and everyone hates hipsters.
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  36. What actual coding are you doing anyhow. Seems like all you do is make videos
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  37. Cloudflare is an evil, fascistic company. But they push trendy wokeisms, so that makes up for it, right? You always know it’s a shit person or company when they feel the need to virtue signal. They’re hoping it distracts and protects from how bad they are.
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  38. Thinking not using cloud services is “thinking different”. Translation: I’ve been doing for less than 10 years and think IT didn’t exist before I learned about it.
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  39.  @jhoughjr1  You won’t go very far in life with the reading comprehension of a 4 year old. “Look at me, I think writing code for a long time means I’m right and the code I wrote made millions for someone else. Not me, but someone, you know, like every programmer who has ever worked for an employer who has any real revenue!” Would hate to have been your employers, they missed out on making billions if you made them millions.
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  40.  @KevinJDildonik  Lol, yeah, it’s the fault of a chat bot. And violent video games and movies were the cause of all killings before LLMs.
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  41.  @ege8240  You here to cry too about not being able to find a good job
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  42. How gullible are you, this has nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with cost cutting and share price bolstering in an anticipation of a continued downturn in the industry. When blatantly they say it’s not because of something, that’s what it’s because of.
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  43. Oh no, what will people do instead of wasting their time and money playing boring games to try and distract themselves from their growing IRL problems
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  44.  @somjrgebn  Well the American Revolution for one. The French Revolution would have worked if they hadn’t set up a garbage democratic structure. The Americans learned from that. Same with the Russians and their first revolution against the Tsar. Things would have worked out if the government they set up wasn’t so fragile. So it’s not that the revolts don’t work, they just don’t result in better circumstances if what follows is garbage. But the American Revolution did just fine and the French did ok after the whole Napoleon thing.
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  45. @ The merchant class isn’t far peasantry, them American Revolution certainly wasn’t fought by nobility and some standing army. The French would have been fine if they hadn’t implemented an ineffective Directory that easily led to corruption. That had nothing to do with the fact the revolution was started in the lower classes and everything to do with poor implementation of a post monarch governance. And as I mentioned ironed, the first Russian revolution was on fairly solid footing but didn’t have the resources to fend off a strong collation of socialist factions, If America had some large faction willing to start a second revolution shortly after it won its independence, things could have been very different. Another example is the Taiping Rebellion which wasn’t directly successful but weakened the Qing enough for the Manchu overthrow of the dynasty. You also have the Mexican revolution which did lead to better quality of life and equality with the resulting constitution. Point is, regardless of outcome, the plebs will revolt at some point p, regardless of whether or not it directly leads to a better outcome. Often it requires a successive chain of events for things to improve. Various labor reforms in Europe and the US were a direct result of slave and worker revolts. Many examples of that. The 8 hour work day becoming common was a result of one in Chicago
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  46.  @pxolqopt3597 Interviews should always be a two way evaluation
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  47. Nah, the decades of lying about a tech worker shortage got them where they went to be. They imported countless devs from the 3rd world, they pushed everyone towards thinking learning how to code was easy money, they pushed women into the field as much as possible under the lie of equality and representation. The whole thing was about making a labor glut so they could drive down wages and fire for any little thing and have an instant pool of replacements ready to go.
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  48. @ Overpopulation sucks. Automation will take a lot of jobs and there will be 5-20 people competing for the ones that are left. Why do you think you keep seeing all this propaganda saying population decline is so bad to justify mass immigration from the 3rd world while they tell Westerners not to have kids because they’re annoying and expensive, not to get married, and to just focus all your money on buying a house when prices are at their peak.
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  49.  @flyingsquirrel3271 It’s effectively the same though in terms of doing parallel work using multiple threads. It’s just with multiple processes those additional threads are wrapped in the overhead of processes which yeah, incurs more overhead for them to communicate. But it’s still multi threading.
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  50. Apps really aren’t more complex now than they were in 2005. 99% of the time it’s just the same basic CRUD front and back end. We’ve added a lot more ways to do the same thing and a desire to support them all adds complexity. Why not let people log into your app with every imaginable 3rd party account in existence? Why not create a bunch of ML models to figure out what to show people, which totally isn’t worse than a basic search and sort? Why not spend 300% more on cloud services and training everyone on them, then complicating all our apps to support the, just to get a couples of tenths of a percent uptime, in theory of course, than being down that extra time would ever cost the business. Learning over complicated things makes us feel smart and gives us the hope of more job security. Implementing over complicated things lets us pretend our employer needs us because otherwise they could get by with half the team or less. We also have a thousand ways to complicate simple things because every dev just has to have a bunch of repos on GitHub, because a resume alone means nothing, but rehashing some else’s code to make a library that does almost nothing, or already exists in 100 other flavors, that, that’s what an employer should look for.
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