Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours
by blub on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:08AM
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It's been a long time goal of the software dev community to lower barriers to entry through bootcamps and such, in an attempt to "democratize software".
And the result is unsurprisingly poorer quality software. So why is it a good thing?
Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours
by projektir on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:42AM
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It's a good thing because it avoids the problem of blocking people from entering for largely arbitrary reasons (i.e., country of birth; exposure to computers in childhood).
I don't think the problem of quality should be addressed by arbitrarily axing people from the field. Some sort of a standardization / accreditation seems like a better approach.
Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours
by blub on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:20AM
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The country of birth and exposure to computers in childhood are not preventing people from becoming software engineers. I'm living proof of that, as are many people all around the world.
And axing is not arbitrary, it's generally done based on experience and know-how. Not everyone can or should become a software engineer.
A testament to how low the barrier of entry has gotten. It's both a good and bad thing at the same time.
It however leads to having to be ever more so vigilant about at least your first layer of dependencies in that ecosystem, if you do want to be professional.
The higher the barrier of entry is to a language, the more likely it is that when you're pulling in dependencies, the code isn't amateurish
Incidentally this is probably why JS juniors think to upgrade dependencies when they encounter unknown situations... a lot of problems in JS do come from your dependencies.