If you're not a programming superstar you can probably make more money writing nothing but Terraform code for hapless enterprises.
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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The amount of unqualified people is staggering beginning with those who have no university education.
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If your function is longer than 10 statements, parts can almost always be extracted into smaller parts. If named correctly, this improves readability significantly
HELL NO! If you split that function into three, but these always have to be called in succession, you win nothing but make your code WAY harder to read/follow.
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I find that S-expressions are the best syntax for programming languages. And in general infix operators are inferior to either prefix or postfix notation.
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Modern PHP is great and people judging it by PHP 5 (version that's almost 20 years old) are idiots.
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Mandatory pull requests + approvals within a team are a waste of everyone's time.
Big hot take to me; especially in an organization with a large size and code high standard
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My crazy take is that there needs to be a interpretative language alternative to Python which uses brackets to define scope and/or things like elif/else/fi/endif/done. Much easier that way in my opinion, and the ";" shouldn't be necessary. I'm used to Python, but if I had another language which can be used to serve similar purpose to Python with those features, I would never code in Python again when it comes up.
Having to code in Julia and G'MIC (Domain-Specific Interpretative language that is arguably the most flexible for raster graphics content creation and editing), they're the closest to there, but they're more suitable for their respective domain than generic ones.
Have you heard the good news about our lord and savior Ruby?
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