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Unfortunately I've met some devs new to SPA stuff and they believe it's either react/flow or angular/typescript. They're being promoted this way in the intro docs on both sides.

Hopefully a sick write-up comes outta this!

I'm convinced functional style is a fad and nothing will change my mind. The style has been around for forever and there's a good reason most languages are still OOP.

We're in the phase of the hype loop where everyone assumes language designers from 15 years ago are idiots. In another few years everyone will be talking about the revival of OOP

I have heard the same from many people. Angular takes the web and makes it look like traditional event driven UI. This is not a bad thing at all, it's how UI works in everything that isn't web.

React is a lot less abstraction and feels more natural to people that started out making UI with plain HTML.

Each has its merits but Angular uses way too much magic for my taste to make the web seem like something it's not. Much like a client side re-imagination of webforms

Angular is a mess but typescript is alive and kicking on its own, even with react.

Personally I'm one of the apparently rare breeds that hate angular but loves typescript. I wish there were more of us.

They're really in different realms and please don't make them part of the same whole. Typescript is a transpiler but the transforms it does are designed to mimic accepted JavaScript idioms.

When I'm debugging typescript it makes sense, it looks almost like JavaScript written by somebody that knows what they're doing.

Contrast that to Babel, Closure compiler, and countless others that produce "JavaScript" that reads more like assembler.

Typescript is easy to make back into human readable JS and it's equally easy to slowly transform your JavaScript into typescript.

It's the most forward and backward compatible language transformer I've ran across so I don't appreciate you shitting on it :)

The most obvious and effective sounding way to divide offices is per-team. That way groups of people working on the same thing can talk easily.

My current company has every dev and most managers in the same room. 7 scrum teams, over 60 people in one room. It's madness and I can't fucking stand the noise.

You get written up for talking "excessively" during work hours because 3/4 the company can hear you when you try to collaborate. Peer programming is impossible.

I have no idea why idiotic management consultants are promoting whats basically a sweatshop environment.

The stupidest part of this is that my company just cut the walls down to a few feet. You can clearly see that the dividers between each team used to be full height walls. What a tragedy

Java is my favorite language now, but its power comes with a lot of potentially confusing constructs. The sheer complexity of the syntax is bad for beginners as well.

It's harder to create program that compiles and runs, at least until you understand compiler and syntax errors well enough to avoid them.

I learned Java as my second language after Perl and I remember how horrible it was to grok all the concepts at once.

At the same time, like I said, it's my favorite language now. The syntax, constructs, and standard library are built in a very sensible way. There's nothing I can look at in Java and say "wow this really fucking sucks" which is rare among languages. C# is the only language I can think of that definitely has cleaner design.

Amazon counterfeits are so common now I would say about half my orders in the last year have been fakes.

If you don't care about quality just get from AliExpress or eBay, why pay brand name price for the same knockoffs?

If you do care about quality buy from any online company with a physical presence. I never get counterfeits from stores with a lot of physical locations and prices are barely different.

A footnote of history, but fraternities were once known for intense competition and a yearly tug of war between houses was common. Part of the history of tug of war I guess?

Anyways, my school is one of the few left which still honors the tradition http://huskiesifc.org/the_site/?page_id=45

The fraternities train like hell for months, it's the real deal.

If you want to see one hell of a tug of war look up "NIU tugs" on youtube.

The really old pictures show it was traditional done over stream so the losers get soaked. Now it's done on dry ground but it's still just as serious. The ropes and other equipment we used likely dated back to the 60's or earlier. The rope was so huge...Maybe 5 inches... It was definitely made for boat anchors