[HN Gopher] Stiff asks, great programmers answer (2006)
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Stiff asks, great programmers answer (2006)
Author : phil294
Score : 61 points
Date : 2021-10-17 02:08 UTC (20 hours ago)
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| angeland89 wrote:
| I find it interesting that to the question of 10x or 100x
| programmer they never ponder if it exist. They just answers what
| those people do or are.
|
| At least in my book that seals the debate, some of the best says
| they exist and can describe them. Then they probably exist in
| larger numbers than outliers in a dataset.
| dang wrote:
| One small past thread:
|
| _Stifflog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=574301 - April 2009 (3
| comments)
| sail0rm00n wrote:
| Steve Yegge called out the browser-side programming dominating
| the app space back in 2006. Amazing foresight!
| hnfong wrote:
| I wouldn't say it's foresight, more like recognizing a trend.
|
| By 2006 I worked as an intern in a company that made rich web
| based apps, basically a competitor to Google Spreadsheets if
| you will. There were numerous startups doing similar stuff. It
| was basically a mainstream thing.
|
| At the time I remember a bunch of people mocking up desktop
| environments inside a browser -- not necessarily useful but it
| was one of the fun things to do with the capabilities of the
| browser. AJAX was the cool tech that everybody wanted to use.
|
| I don't think anyone at the time could have foreseen that
| Javascript would become the sophisticated mess with new
| frameworks displacing the existing ones every other year, but
| browser-side programming displacing traditional UI toolkits was
| well on the way by then.
| Jensson wrote:
| It was half a year after the launch of Google docs, pretty sure
| many had similar views at the time. Feels like the browser side
| peaked at the time and we are still about there, at least among
| the stuff I use there isn't anything more complicated than
| google docs still today 15 years later.
| 8note wrote:
| 2006 was the hey day of flash games, so the moving to browser
| part was already pretty clear, but that it would be web based
| APIs less so. canvas was still new/didn't work very well back
| then iirc.
| kleiba wrote:
| When it's right, it's amazing foresight; when it's wrong, no-
| one remembers.
| natch wrote:
| So, what is Peter Norvig's favorite book, I wonder.
| agumonkey wrote:
| sometimes he lurks by, maybe you (and we)'ll have an answer
| twic wrote:
| Just sitting here imagining Bjarne rocking out to the Dixie
| Chicks.
| xojoc wrote:
| Previous discussion on Reddit
| https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/99etq/ten_ques...
| (215 comments)
|
| PS: found with
| https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.or...
| [deleted]
| kleiba wrote:
| Interesting to learn how often Emacs gets mentioned.
| lmilcin wrote:
| It is simple. Emacs is an editor made by programmers for
| programmers. If you are the type that likes to tinker with
| things, Emacs is going to be the editor for you to tinker with
| and automate whatever you want.
| agumonkey wrote:
| the adaptability freedom emacs yields is really addictive,
| and i'm a super crappy elisp programmer
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