What you consider as super-hackers are hype driven developers and architect-astronauts to me :) We are not talking about same set of people.
Re:Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004)
by briantakita on Monday December 21, 2020 @01:36PM
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There ought to be a recognized set of ethics & principles that are involved with making good software, like with any Profession. Following the hype or silver bullet solution for it's own sake should not be one of those principles.
Re:Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004)
by kirubakaran on Monday December 21, 2020 @12:18PM
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> much of the codebase bloat I've seen in recent years has come from super-hackers
I'd say they aren't really super-hackers; no true Scotsman and all that.
Do you ever feel like this is a sort of paradox? You feel like you need to be up to date with the new hotness to stay relevant in the market, yet often the most productive use of your time would be to use some boring old well-trodden thing. It gives me anxiety.
Re:Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004)
by wilsonrocks on Monday December 21, 2020 @01:38PM
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I have built a react app to be mounted inside an existing angular app (not my idea) it was... Interesting
Ironically, much of the codebase bloat I've seen in recent years has come from super-hackers who want to gain experience with all the new frameworks and services on the market.
A prime example is hiring a front-end wizard to rebuild sites in React, just because React is the new hotness. That engineer gets to put "Replaced legacy website with all-new React codebase" on their resume and pivot into the next job.
At my previous employer, one of the teams had a front-end that had become an unholy conglomeration of React and Angular, simply because the engineers were afraid their skills would fall behind if they didn't keep up with React. It was a mess.
Ironically, hiring developers who care more about getting the job done tends to choose the path of least resistance forward, which means sticking with frameworks, languages, and services that may not be the trendiest, but they get the job done.