FactoryReboot's comments

On: Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

[FactoryReboot]

No. Choose the other FAANG offer

On: Canada’s new tech talent strategy

[FactoryReboot]

What was your pay difference between the two?

I’d love nice things for taxes in the USA but the pay tends to be higher enough here to offset it for engineers.

On: To Build a Top Performing Team, Ask for 85% Effort

[FactoryReboot]

I’m an engineering manager. I enjoy reading about how to be a better manager.

I’d probably still agree with your statement though. They also definitely don’t teach us how to manage.

On: Introducing react.dev

[FactoryReboot]

I strongly disagree. It was way easier to reason about things pre hooks.

[SPBesui → FactoryReboot]

I think you’re probably referring to the lifecycle methods, which have relatively clear and unambiguous names in class components. The thing is, those names may make you feel comfortable that they do what their respective names imply, but in reality they’re an abstraction away from how React really works under the hood. Hooks, for better or worse, get you a little “closer to the metal,” so to speak.

Also custom hooks are vastly more readable IMHO than HOCs.

On: Introducing react.dev

[FactoryReboot]

Hooks were the beginning of the end of my interest in React. Truly a terrible concept. Way to magic. Not overly aesthetic, not to mention the async programming techniques the js community has developed for over a decade all kinda break down with hooks.

You can’t even just keep using class based as they have no way to consume hooks.

Unit testing of hook based code is non existent IME. It’s some kinda funky E2E feeling test.

React was my favorite framework before. It’s really a shame.

[SPBesui → FactoryReboot]

> Unit testing of hook based code is non existent IME. It’s some kinda funky E2E feeling test.

I’m guessing you’re referring to the fact that you can’t access component state like you can with class components. If so, that’s not required to do a unit test. That’s a sign that implementation details are leaking into your tests.

[motoxpro → FactoryReboot]

They are just so simple to me that the "magic" never comes into play. Just a function that gets called when something in an array is different between renders.

On: The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z

[FactoryReboot]

Why not both

On: TikTok banned on government devices under spending bill passed by Congress

[FactoryReboot]

Agree. Content on Chinese tik Tok is very different.

[orhmeh09 → FactoryReboot]

If you want this, pass laws to force that kind of content.

On: Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

[FactoryReboot]

Doctor’s borrowed the title from academics. They didn’t even have it first.

On: Stanford University: List of harmful words to eliminate from use

[FactoryReboot]

Latinx was invented by white people to alleviate their own guilt. You’re right it’s essentially colonialism.

You can’t remove gender from Latino languages… the entire language would need to be created from scratch.

[yucky → FactoryReboot]

   > Latinx was invented by white people to alleviate their own guilt. 

Doesn't that describe pretty much all of this nonsense though?

On: Stanford University: List of harmful words to eliminate from use

[FactoryReboot]

So what’s the end game here, literally remove the ability to say anything negative about anyone?

It’s inherently not kind to say “I don’t think you’re smart” but do we really want to eliminate being able to say that? Are we all just going to be 100% nice to each other all the time and only say kind things about others.

I don’t think so. People do bad and stupid shit all the time. We should be able to express that.

An overused phrase but this is quite literally 1984.

[fionic → FactoryReboot]

You’re not supposed to say 1984. During that year many harmful things happened to civilians in a city during a conflict and it reminds people of how terrible it was. Instead try to say “decades ago” so that way they don’t know what year your referring to and don’t get reminded of anything specific that happened in the specific year.