top | item 47173401 (no title) booi | 4 days ago arguably if you're using the CLI they still are discuss order hn newest spiralcoaster|4 days ago Yeah but now they're using npm to install a million packages to do things like tell if a number is greater than 10000. The chances of the programmer wanting to understand the underlying system they are using is essentially nil. spott|4 days ago Yea, they are just much higher level programmers… most programmers don’t know the low level syscall apis. kube-system|4 days ago nah, we have long had other disciplines using the CLI who do not write their own software, e.g. sysadmins
spiralcoaster|4 days ago Yeah but now they're using npm to install a million packages to do things like tell if a number is greater than 10000. The chances of the programmer wanting to understand the underlying system they are using is essentially nil.
spott|4 days ago Yea, they are just much higher level programmers… most programmers don’t know the low level syscall apis.
kube-system|4 days ago nah, we have long had other disciplines using the CLI who do not write their own software, e.g. sysadmins
spiralcoaster|4 days ago
spott|4 days ago
kube-system|4 days ago