dpistole · HackerTrans

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> why you're not getting the results that a lot of us are talking about?

IMO the problem occurs when "the results" are hyped up linkedIn posts not based in reality, AI is a boon but it's not lived up to the "IDEs are a thing of the past, youre all prompt engineers now" expectations that we hear from executives

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I spent the last 18 months unemployed and on WA "Apple Care", wasn't terrible, got me into the doctor for an ultrasound and into the dentist for an extraction at no cost to me.

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  Location: Bonney Lake, WA
  Remote: yes, please
  Willing to relocate: no, thank you
  Technologies: Typescript, React, Node (and lots of the associated tooling and libraries)
  Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/3JI3Pq0
  Email: (see resume)

  ~8 years experience frontend development (with some fullstack mixed in)
  ~8 years experience systems & network administration

I'm Don, an experienced frontend developer seeking a role working with Typescript and React/Node. Capable full stack and familiar with servers and networks. Passionate about my craft and personal growth.

dpistole

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fwiw `handbook.flexpa.com` seems down

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barely related but I used to commute 60/90 minutes for an entry level tech job in orange county (I lived inland where it was more industrial and was chasing opportunity). Sometimes we'd have client network outages that left us in office until late night/early morning, twice I tried to sleep at the office instead of driving home.

first time was in my car and was kicked out of the parking lot by security, I probably should have protested more

second time was curled up against a wall in our equipment room, and the poor cleaning lady let out a shout when she discovered me haha

on one hand a company hotel seems kind of perverse to me, on the other its cheaper than the super 8 was in 2010, and I probably would have taken a $99 room over the commute every now and then

dpistole

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Wonder if it's tsconfig 'strictNullChecks', I think by default it's false, takes a lot away from the typesafety

I worked on a codebase missing it once and when I went to turn it on there were thousands of errors to fix so we left it off

dpistole

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looks like its a website monitoring the subreddit statuses with a handful of them having already gone private

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"paid huge money to literally write if/else"

"most programmers are in denial about how complex the code they’re writing actually is"

I can taste the salt

dpistole

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From a front end perspective I think the selling points I see pitched for these new server side frameworks are "SEO" and "speed".

SEO I personally think is a questionable motivation except in very specific use cases.

Speed is almost compelling but the complexity cost and all the considerations around how a page is structured (which components are server, which are client, etc) does not seem worth the complexity cost IMO. Just pop a loading animation up in most cases IMO.

I think I'm stuck somewhere in the middle between old-hacker-news-person yelling "lol were just back at index.html" and freshly-minted-youtube-devs going "this is definitely the new standard".

dpistole

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I think it makes sense in the "beer is tangible" and "speech is not" sense (to my brain anyway). If I saw a "free beer" sign in a window I'd probably be inclined to think (albeit suspiciously) that there might be a frosty mug inside at no cost to me. Whereas if I saw a "free speech" sign, I'd assume they support my right to say whatever I want (or I suppose maybe that there's a lecture going on inside with no admittance fee).

We all got different brains though, shoutout learning from others perspectives, ty for sharing yours.

dpistole

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I think your interpretation of "free as in beer" is the opposite of the mainstream (where my understanding is it means "free of charge")

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Makes sense, probably just ad click driving spam page, appreciate the info :)

I wonder how much of people being burnout on "front end frameworks" is because of "17 must know javascript frameworks" articles akin to the JAVA stuff at the top of google.

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I'm not a java man but a quick google leads to a lot of "10 java frameworks you should know", "17 popular java frameworks", and a "list of java frameworks" on Wikipedia that's dozens long.

Frontend wise it seems similar at a glance, in that you could use react for the last 10 years and be fine. Or you could jump from react to vue to svelte and make life hard for yourself.

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