What rule did I break to result in being flagged?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Where do you work?

Block

> Is there no way to treat working for big tech as a business transaction and compartmentalize the negatives?

Maybe you can, but I can't. It's so exhausting when it's an everyday thing. Constantly in Slack. Constantly in emails. Constantly expected to believe the exact same thing and if you don't you're a racist bigot that doesn't deserve life itself.

You gotta do what's right for you.

Have you tried moving to a different team/org?

Not worth it. I value my mental health too much.

More than one Eastern European intellectual survived doing menial work temporarily, e.g. Milan Kundera https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/russ...

I got my start in programming in the early 2000s with Perl and, shortly after, PHP. I went through school mainly with C++ and Java and got a job as a .NET developer after.

I say all this because I fucking hated JavaScript with a passion. From the time of my initial foray into programming until my later years, I hated it. It was always a joke of a language that, honestly, caused me to develop such a bias that I nearly refused to use it, for a very long time.

Several months ago I decided to put my prejudices aside and began playing around with Nodejs and React. The main motivation was trying to learn more about front end development and guess what? I really enjoy JavaScript.

JavaScript is a very enjoyable language to play with. It has come such a long way despite, literally, all odds. The ecosystem is scattered. The build system is the most hacky monstrosity you’ve ever encountered. But, that’s one of the reasons I love it. It feels like the essence of what I feel when I imagine hacking.

And not only that, it uses a unique (at least to the paradigms I’m used to) execution model that is very performant.

These are just a lot of words for me to say I love JavaScript.

I dunno… I started around the same time as you, also with PHP. I posted this comment[0] the other day where I tried to put into words how much I hate JavaScript and, judging from the reactions I got, it seems the community is pretty split on this one.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29193470

my background is similar to yours. I still hate JavaScript somewhat. But I can tolerate it a bit more than I could 10 years ago. Possibly because of advancements in development environments and tools.

Cool project but no real world use case.

Which Twitter needs because they're chat absolutely blows.

Could have just connected your phone to data and tried it out.

A VPN is a button click away, and modem reboot is two clicks :) For me personally more convenient than tethering.

I moved from back to front and I can confidently say for me the backend is much easier. But it probably has something to do with doing it so long. I imagine given time I'd decide they're about the same difficulty.