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Ask HN: Things programmers should get rid of in 2017

17 points| zatkin | 9 years ago

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[+] itamarst|9 years ago|reply
Crazy long working hours. Work/life balance will make you a better human being... but it will also make you a better programmer (https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/11/10/work-life-balance-so...).
[+] kzisme|9 years ago|reply
Would you suggest taking more time off, or working less hours for less pay?

I always hear that during an 8 hour day you only really work for 4-6 of those hours, but if I was able to work 4-6, and get to see more sunlight during my day I would! Although I would dislike being paid less.

[+] Jugurtha|9 years ago|reply
I've seen a company where the most likely cause of death for engineers was a heart attack. There were two deaths in a short period (two months or so).

You could see it was a sensitive topic.

[+] somecallitblues|9 years ago|reply
Their massive egos. It's you "I know algorithms and wouldn't touch a framework of any kind if kill me" boys and girls. Every second comment thread on this site ends like that.
[+] odonnellryan|9 years ago|reply
Hahaha, I'm sorry? Maybe elaborate, I don't see this much!
[+] flukus|9 years ago|reply
Javascript. Let it go back to what it's good at, basic web interactivity.
[+] sotojuan|9 years ago|reply
Half of HN would be unemployed in that case :-)
[+] dhogan|9 years ago|reply
I got my password emailed to me in plain text the other day. So that's still a thing.
[+] gt565k|9 years ago|reply
What app / site did that? Please do share.
[+] sotojuan|9 years ago|reply
Building SPAs when they're not needed.
[+] lfx|9 years ago|reply
Interesting question.

I would say - Password only ssh logins; Old / Vuln libs; non tests covered code; XSS and SQL Injection from all the code. - But this is really boring.

AI witch threatens to take over developers occupation - this is more interesting idea for future consideration.

But really I just want to see one thing to be destroyed - idea that creating new tools will solve all the issues (looking at you JS world) instead of improving existing ones or even real deep thinking about the problem beforehand. And then dropping it (new tool) after something new more shiner comes up.

[+] odonnellryan|9 years ago|reply
> Password only ssh logins

Dear lord, this still happens? :)

[+] vayarajesh|9 years ago|reply
Over-architecting the software. Sometimes a simple problem can be solved with simple scripts.