Comments by "" (@adambickford8720) on "ThePrimeagen" channel.

  1. I work at a fortune 100 company and its exactly like this, w/the turnover that goes with it. The 'big company' is just an aggregate up of small departments/divisions that have their own budgets that usually doesn't go far enough. AND you have to comply w/the non-coding architects' mandates.
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  2. Looking forward to the developer productivity video. I enjoy reactive programming, but you definitely need a certain amount of scale before the you get your ROI in runtime savings. VB6 did nothing wrong.
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  3. The actual valuable tests are around enforcing business behavior correctness, not about technical concerns. Context matters a lot too. When the result of your error is some text blowing out of a div or janky scroll behavior, no big deal, roll forward. When your error produces tons of data that has to be reconciled while all the stake holders spaz out, you feel differently. Knowing its 'correct' and being able to confidently iterate on that 'correctness' is suddenly quite valuable.
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  4. Rember, "experience" is just googling error message for hours and learning new terms you can google... for hours. You'll see these again and after years remember almost half, saving you days you Senior Developer!
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  5. Those enums are pretty close to java and java has an Optional as well as primitive pattern matching. Looks like rust would be pretty reasonable to learn.
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  6. If you're doing java benchmarks without JMH, stop wasting everyone's time and learn it.
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  7. Its run by business, not engineers; jsôn allows for a more commodity/fungible dev team. It takes a certain amount of scale before the tradeoff is worth it. Same for things like reactive programming, etc. The quality of your videos, in both content and presentation, is strong enough that it's deterring me from taking on that kind of load for a S&Gs channel of my own! I'd love to see more stuff 100% (i'd do the twitch stuff but it's a bit of a time commitment and i completely suck at multi-tasking so i can't really do it in the background)
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  8. You likely need a break from 'work', not coding. 100% on do something exciting and not just work/career goals... there's a good chance it'll happen anyway.
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  9. I'd like to see how this compares to reactive/non-blocking java, especially w/graalvm.
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  10. I think it depends on the person. Take gaming; some just want to get better at the game, but plenty love the extrinsic stuff like achievements/trophies.
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  11.  @ThePrimeagen  some just want to be l33t3st hacker they can be, others like pursuing industry certs, swanky job titles, etc.
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  12.  @ThePrimeagen  Java Microbenchmark Harness. So you can get reasonable numbers instead of random VM/jit compiler behavior. You cant just throw a loop in `main` and start making performance claims, but it doesn't stop people.
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  13.  @old_gaffer  Hence the 'If you're doing java'. It applies to any VM/hosted language though.
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  14. I think every editor/workflow can be good if you really take the time to practice and master it. For example, in windows if you pin apps you can use windows+number keys to switch like 'random access' alt tab (repeating cycles the instances of the app) so you don't need the mouse all that much. Windows+c/v are multi copy/paste built in to the os, and it works just fine with ubuntu/wsl ;)
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  15. Then in your pr you learn you have to use the enterprise Hashcode-As-A-Service
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  16. Accept that there is a fair amount of 'fashion' in software development and don't get religious about how it was when you learned. The industry often does literal 180 degree shifts in paradigms (mainframe -> smart terminals -> cloud, js/css/html segregation, client/server rendering).
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  17. I use intellij but rarely use a mouse so I'm curious what the actual workflow delta is
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  18. i didn't need to understand binary to hate javascript; i have first-hand experience
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  19. Experience is what you have right after you needed it. Fake it till you make it!
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  20. They should name js frameworks after dairy products, because that's about how long they last.
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  21. Yes! No, not "scientifically", but emotionally for sure. And that can affect 'inspiration' and 'QoL' that have tangible results the way a favorite guitar or paintbrush can. I'd view your history from a different lens. Netbeans allowed you to choose the scope of your interest/passion at that time and keep you engaged. You may well have been overwhelmed and discouraged otherwise. You seem like the genuinely curious type so i'm sure you were a mile deep into the JVM, etc while your cohort was at much more of a system level. I don't think its as disparate as you see it. You told a similar story about writing a java program to achieve what was essentially a 1 liner on the command line. Sure, in that case it makes you feel really stupid! But you gained a ton of knowledge about concepts like types, oo, late binding, reflection, etc. that are broadly applicable to engineering in general. Even if it's just to help validate why you didn't choose it and/or articulate that to youtube peasants.
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  22. I've experienced this with the trend towards functional programming and immutable everything in the java world. Many who've sunk countless hours taming the OO beast and learning the intricacies of locks/visibility/etc just find reason after reason to hate it. It generally devolves to 'its unreadable' as they marvel at some nasty beast with a cyclomatic complexity of 50+
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  23. Success is just the visible part of the failure iceberg
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