Morning

Mornin'

morning

Morning

morning

morning!

is it just me or is programming with @annotation (like the Java ones) actually pretty crap? It requires a good understanding about what the annotation means, what it does and how it is affected by other annotations. It isn't code, and that is not a good thing (I think) as it seem to complect things.

example: we had a performance problem with the DB... developer adds some Hibernate Annotations... performance improves... but other things break. suddenly not all the fields from a class get serialised anymore into JSON by Spring due to some other annotation.

I don't want a change to a setting (what an annotation is to a certain degree) to also change the behaviour of my code!!!

just me? or am I barking up the wrong tree here?

Morning

It was my experience that Hibernate was very good at the trivial stuff, but very bad as soon as you wanted anything more complicated than 1Row:1Object

Depending on how your database <-> object mapping are it might save you alot of time

or make thing a whole lot worse

devs get into a pure computerscience mindset whereby you want to solve the problem within Hibernate

whereas its is often simpler to do outside hibernate

that is my feeling as well... very easy to get started. When you are just starting a new project and the data model is changing a lot it saves you a lot of time as you only need to write it ones (just the Java code, not also the matching SQL). That makes it easy... but in the long run not simple.

because you are trying to glue two things together that are not quite compatible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxibon

as you are comlecting things...the Object model and the relational model.

indeed

hmm I quite like those!

I hadn't realised that the icecreams were the same flavour

I thought the two halves were wholly incompatible

no, one kind of ice cream... just one side covered in chocolate and the other in a biscuit.

somehow that is disappointing

still, I don't like Hibernate... too much black magic for me.

man ORMs are the worst

Rails wasn’t even that bad a framework once you ditched the ORM

Trivia for the day. In the early days of support for JPA I patch a problem with the cascade delete in Hibernate. It's not black magic but at that time (about 2004-5 from memory) there was a lot of Aspect Oriented code that had to be wrangled if you wanted to understand the guts of what it did. I was writing a load of AOP code (AspectJ) that sat around Hibernate altering what it did for my specific domain. It was a crazy idea that I objected to to start with, cost me a year of my life and, as I predicted, never went live!

I tend to sum all of this stuff up with favouring explicit code over implicit means you take your pain up front but it's amortised over the lifetime of your code base, versus easy start and then pain or even a deadend later.

it’s also never that much pain. It’s a couple of extra lines to write. 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there.

yeah explicit is literally always better

Morning

morning

Morning 🙂

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/uk-world/840740/iconic-frontman-of-the-prodigy-found-dead-at-49/ 😢

I'm thinking about going to Spitalfields Market in London for dinner at around 630ish. Anyone around fancy going? (no idea where there, but lots to choose from)

I'm not in London I've always eyed the vietnamese Pho place that is round there though

Not actually managed to get through the door

(not sure what time they close)

@otfrom - I'd love to meet you for dinner

if that is called Pho, I've been to some others before and they are good

@maleghast lovely

🙂

Where are you thinking of eating?

do time and location work for you?

idk, that's why I was aiming at Spitalfields Market. 😉

Oh aye - I can walk to Spitalfields from the office

just need a time and a place to meet and we can decide from there unless you have strong opinions

There are many chooses there

that was the plan

Perhaps we meet by the sculpture on the corner (is it a pear?) at 1830h?

https://publicartforeastlondon.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/a-pear-and-a-fig-by-ali-grant/

meet there ^^ ?

which corner is that?

nw/ne/sw/se?

@maleghast I don't actually know where that statue is 😊

@maleghast how about the tented bit by the white goat statue? https://goo.gl/maps/6N8aecVuE8M2

(near cycle surgery)

Sure 🙂

See you there 🙂

ah, they are very close to each other I see now 🙂

@maleghast 6:30PM work for you?

and if anyone else is around and wants to come along

Indeed - 1830h is great 🙂

I would join but my train home is at 1900

maybe some other time tho 😄

drat. Sorry to miss you @alex.lynham. Just as I'm becoming sociable again too

haha there will be other times no doubt

also in case there are any peter gabriel fans that weren’t aware (or in my case, weren’t born yet) - holy s**t the german versions of Melt and Security are mental

@alex.lynham they’re brilliant, I had the on vinyl years ago

PG2 is still a wonder.

currently listening to Schock den Affen 🙈

Affen

hey hey

oh Affeeeeeeeen

Warning: Contains Chapman Stick

Oh, the Sledgehammer guy

Didn't he turn into the T-1000 in the video for that

No…. that was Brian Pern, who also had the lowest recorded bass note in pop music.

🙂

https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C064BA6G2/p1551716307313000 careful now lad

You need to listen to some nice German rap instead

Although frankly Krieger is the only Fantastischen Vier track I've heard that I like

@alex.lynham Still prefer PG3 when it’s all said and done. Because that’s where I Don’t Remember Is…..

sorry, I don't recall

oh well played

Ah well, moved on to Toni Childs instead.

Just on the hope that @otfrom doesn’t know any lyrics or tunes.

hey, don't you walk away @jasonbell

@otfrom Did you ever listen to the last St Vincent album, just vocal and piano? Stunning it is.

something post the best breakup album ever?

🙂

if anyone else is up for dinner in London this evening, @maleghast and I will be meeting at Spitalfields Market at 18:30

https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C064BA6G2/p1551712664306300

Sup

Shame I missed the impromptu meetup, my phone died :(

Here’s a thing for tomorrow, relevant to what we talked some time ago (front end, gendering of tech, and the effect of boot camps.) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs

I’m glad people are starting to question the “let’s teach everyone to code”, because realistically once everyone is a coder, coding will no longer pay and we’ll be back to the starting situation.

I find their example salaries a bit iffy

Devops vs front end?

👀

the difference between software engineer and front engine is 37k to 33k

Sorry, that website (glassdoor?) is unusable on mobile, can’t tell :(

Salaries can wildly differ depending on location and also whether the company thinks can get away with it.

yeah no worries, i just am not sure why those chose devops haha

The author isn’t a developer and might have chosen that as a representative of “backend”.

Dunno :) The stats I found on gender spread came from surveys ran by websites and magazines aimed at engineers, so that could have also been somewhat self selected.

I’ve always wanted to know more about what the industry Really looks like, you know? Because we must be missing huge swathes of population that is not engaged in the same way

"The pipeline is not the problem; the meritocracy is the problem." <-- this.

:thinking_face: what do you mean

There's plenty of material out there @guy that explains why the so-called "meritocracy" is a problem. A good place to start is http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Meritocracy

devops vs frontend salaries isn’t a fair comparison, but surely on average backend developers should command a significantly higher salary than their front-end counterparts? There are whole classes of problems that a front-end developer never needs to care or know about. JS development is literally just single-threaded CRUD and positioning of elements on the screen. There’s no scaling issues, no race conditions, no out of hours support rotas (urk), no data migrations no exploding databases etc etc etc. It really is a lot simpler than backend work. Am I wrong about this?

Yeah dude, probably. Frontend salaries are lower because the supply is higher, as far as I can tell.

ho ho ho ho ho

try and build a scalable SPA that works across devices and then tell me how terraform and jenkins and bash are harder 🙂

As a backend developer of 35-ish years, I certainly do not begrudge my frontend counterparts their high salaries, considering the crazy minefields that frontend development is. Cross-browser behavior is a nightmare, and the whole toolchain shifts so rapidly it's a full-time job just keeping up (we're just going through the WebPack 4 pain right now).

I’ve often found front end or JS folks are as good if not better, they just don’t always have much theory (just my experience, sample size of 1) - also true that two of the best engineers I ever worked with were JS

You couldn't pay me enough to take on frontend work. Sure, the problems are different between the front and back and FE folks often have zero idea about the weird stuff us BE folks have to deal with -- but the opposite is also true.

in my last work I was nominally responsible for a team where a female engineer who did full stack JS and was the best dev on the team was routinely sidelined by a male colleague that was just a web designer with some JS

trying to put her in the driving seat - she was smarter and more professional was difficult because of the biases of people around her

even though it was clear she was the best (to me, anyway) - wouldn’t have surprised me if she was paid less too but I don’t know what her comp was

We get to test our stuff in isolation or in carefully controlled environments. They can't even begin to test in the actual environments their code will run in. I am continually horrified at the problems that they have to debug and resolve based on bizarre outliers caused by browser/plugin/OS combinations out there 🤯

All of that ^ by Alex and Sean really. Plus, not all backend work is complex.

It’s been my general experience that when I think “X is simple”, it’s just that I didn’t know how complex it was because the pros doing X handled the complexity for me. And when I learn more about X, my mind is blown. (Most recent reason: marketing.)

And you couldn’t pay me to do frontend (people tried, I won’t, I still have IE6 scars.)

thanks for this. i’ll need to ponder a bit more, but don’t think you’ve quite convinced me yet. I’ve done both frontend and backend for many years, and I still feel that the breadth of knowledge and skills required to be successful on the backend is much larger. That said, @seancorfields comment about ‘carfeully controlled environments’ resonated with me.

> when I think “X is simple”, it’s just that I didn’t know how complex it was because the pros doing X handled the complexity for me. oh man this 100%

project, delivery, user research, you name it

Everything is fractal

https://xkcd.com/1095/