lucyferzyr's comments

First comment is a complain about python and the first thread is about saws and woodworking tools.

Truly a hacker news experience.

I tried to learn Python around 2008-2009 and it was literally the worst time to try to learn Python, the transition to Python3 was just beginning, take 2 random code samples from the internet and they won't work together, python2to3 didn't work either.

It's kind of a shame how this transition took more than 10 years. The good part, we learned that we don't have to go through the same again. of course I dropped python (I was like 18 years old and didn't know anything about programming), I had to learn python last year and you still can see a lot of stuff that makes the experience kind of annoying.

Anyway, I'm pretty impressed how Python still is in the first positions of most charts, I still fail to see how great the language is, but hopefully I will be able to someday soon :)

As a senior dev who is just starting with python, I just wish python makes pip being able to handle everything nicely. Hate seeing a bunch of tuts saying that I should use other tools (like poetry or whatever) because pip doesn't handle X use case.

I completely agree with your feeling. I been working with js, php, ruby for years, and packaging is pretty straightforward in every one of them. And the lang versioning works for every one of them (php is the most annoying, yeah, but even on php is easier than in python). Ruby has several alternatives like rbenv or rvm, but any of them works has every feature 99,9% of developers needs, and they work just fine. I want that in python ):

I work as a developer, and recruiters emails me in a daily basis. We all should try to minimize the recruiting efforts, but the amount of secrets that recruiters won't tell is just annoying... Sometimes even the company name they're recruiting for is a secret until you pass 1 or 2 interviews.

I know, there must be reasons for that, but from my point of view, it makes me lost a lot of time, and just for context, I spend 3 months looking for a job (with several interviews each week), this is just the proper market research everyone should do. And the end I was able to double my salary, work less, and get a lot bunch of great benefits.

And of course, the most annoying thing from this, was all the wasted time because recruiters 1) didn't wanted to handle me the proper information (like salary ranges or benefits) and 2) recruiters didn't make their own job, there was like 3-4 companies I applied for where, at the end of the process they wanted to hire me, but we're not able to do it since they have a contract with my previous company. Recruiters (or somebody else) should check that info before starting the process.