While I agree that it's for managers and stakeholders, I wonder how much of it ends up being a net value-add. Where I work, we have a million and one different kinds of reports that pass through the chain of command…
> And I find it pretty unreadable, it's not nearly as expressive as other languages I enjoy using. I tend to conflate higher expressiveness with being "clever" until you're really proficient in the language. I think…
I welcome salary discussions with any coworker who wants to talk about it, but I almost _never_ initiate the conversation. It's still too much of a taboo with many people to be worth the risk.
Nothing big ever got built by a bunch of self-centered loud mouths either. And these are typically the types that find themselves in these roles. I think you're making a big leap saying "let them deal with the…
I think it depends on how you define fun. For me personally, does a workplace need to have alcohol, video games, bowling alleys, and ping pong tables? Probably not. It does need to be interesting though. And my…
I'm surprised that you would lump Go in as a "super-tanker" language. I find it incredibly small and simplistic when compared to something like Rust. I think it actually has fewer keywords than C.
>"Stuff like lambdas weren’t born in some hipster language, they came from JavaScript" Lambdas are actually so hipster that they were cool before we even had programming languages:…
While I agree that it's for managers and stakeholders, I wonder how much of it ends up being a net value-add. Where I work, we have a million and one different kinds of reports that pass through the chain of command…
> And I find it pretty unreadable, it's not nearly as expressive as other languages I enjoy using. I tend to conflate higher expressiveness with being "clever" until you're really proficient in the language. I think…
I welcome salary discussions with any coworker who wants to talk about it, but I almost _never_ initiate the conversation. It's still too much of a taboo with many people to be worth the risk.
Nothing big ever got built by a bunch of self-centered loud mouths either. And these are typically the types that find themselves in these roles. I think you're making a big leap saying "let them deal with the…
I think it depends on how you define fun. For me personally, does a workplace need to have alcohol, video games, bowling alleys, and ping pong tables? Probably not. It does need to be interesting though. And my…
I'm surprised that you would lump Go in as a "super-tanker" language. I find it incredibly small and simplistic when compared to something like Rust. I think it actually has fewer keywords than C.
>"Stuff like lambdas weren’t born in some hipster language, they came from JavaScript" Lambdas are actually so hipster that they were cool before we even had programming languages:…