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Hear me out: A scripting language that compiles to bash or sh (any suggestions?)

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  • Knock off the childish fucking gatekeeping and go back to reddit. It's what the wider industry uses.

    • Hear me out: A scripting language that compiles to bash or sh (any suggestions?)

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  • python is usually the next step up in admin land

    python is a pretty standard install on linux systems since so many things like you're talking about use it

    • What are your programming hot takes?

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  • You missed one:

    • To let others at least have some insight into what you're doing so you can take a freakin' vacation every once in a while

    • [DISCUSS] Pros/cons of videos for technical documentation?

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  • Technical videos have helped me perfect my pronunciation of "umm" and "uhh."

    • What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

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  • throw yourself to the wolves

    embrace the wolves

    • What's stopping WebAssembly from effectively replacing JavaScript?

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  • From a historical standpoint, there is also the bad blood of ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight and early Java applets that still leaves a bad taste in people's mouths. It has a slightly steeper uphill battle to fight.

    • Why do they keep making new languages

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  • Generally the most supported language on the tool/platform you want to target is the best one. Like SQL on databases, JS/ES in browsers, python in data science related stuff, etc. If multiple are heavily supported then just pick the one that's the most comfortable.

    • is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn

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  • I can think of surgeon examples but I've never heard of Recruiters Without Borders. Unless it's just CapGemini

    • is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn

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  • Fintech is easy to deal with in this regard.

    "do you have code samples you can share?"

    "would you be happy if an employee interviewed elsewhere and used your codebase for work samples?"

    • The 90s Developer Starter Pack

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    • Say you could solicit a notable figure in technology, who would you want to lurk on this instance?

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  • BBSs had fidonet in 1993, if email, usenet and irc don't count

    • Twitter traffic appears to be declining since the beginning of the 2023 calendar year

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  • They use Atlanta Metro, AWS and GCP as far as I know. I want to say they own the Oregon DC but can't remember.

    • Job interview vs job

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  • A more honest code test:

    interviewer: "see if you can get this project my nephew made in high school to run"

    job: getting the next project their nephew made in high school to run

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  • PREFERRED:

    • PhD in quantum cryptography
    • 3 years of janitorial services experience
    • Proof of current therapist

    • compsci rule

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  • Historical note: the golden age of crazy uncle email forwards made me completely reject capitalized sql statements

    • Linus be like...

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    • it makes just as little sense to me

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  • Nope, it's all light theme with comic sans and small caps for me

    • Lemmy is in serious need of more devs [CROSS POST]

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  • It's on my radar and I'm sure it's on a number of other people's as well. It just takes a little onboarding time like all good projects.

    Worth noting: the ui is in inferno js