Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (2016)

Re:Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (2016) by amalcon on Sunday July 29, 2018 @06:09PM (#17640579)

It's a little weird to count a markup language, a presentation language, and a query language on the same axis as Turing-complete programming languages. If we go by that metric, the average sysadmin knows dozens of languages all at once. Yet sysadmin work is also often looked down on for some reason.

I don't have a good explanation for either of those phenomena, but I think language-counting isn't a good way to combat them.

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Re:Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (2016) by Zelphyr on Sunday July 29, 2018 @06:21PM (#17640645)

I've done sysadmin work as well and the context switching didn't feel as prohibitive. Generally I was using something like Perl, Python, Bash, etc... but rarely switching between more than one in any given day.

With web development, I have to know HTML, CSS, and JS at least. I probably really need to know SQL. And I switch between those four (at least) every day, many times a day.

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Re:Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (2016) by oneplane on Sunday July 29, 2018 @06:20PM (#17640643)

I think those markup and styling languages and even SQL have all been used in turing-completeness examples. Everything is bad, nothing is easy, and we might as well stop using the internet. We're all going really fast, but nobody knows where ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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