Tell me an unpopular software opinion

#discuss

I tweeted this yesterday and the response was not good.

Tell me your unpopular opinion. Lighthearted only.

Latest comments (310)

Raghav Misra • Aug 26 '20

Of course, I'd never do it in practice ~~(I'd judge anyone who would)~~. I was only trying to prove the unpopular opinion. :D

David Wickes • Aug 27 '20

I really recommend both of you disabling JS in your browser and opening Gmail up to see what can be done.

Raghav Misra • Aug 27 '20

Exactly!

Viswaprasath • Aug 26 '20

Learn to debug is waste of time.

Raghav Misra • Aug 26 '20

I could, use <form> and make the magic happen on your backend/server.

David Wickes • Jul 26 '20

Yes you can 😁 - think of it as a forum.

Stephen Goldberg • Jul 12 '20

ORMs are awful.

Mike Bybee • Jul 11 '20 • Edited

1a. You learn little to nothing about a developer candidate through live coding/whiteboarding challenges (except maybe that recent CS/boot camp grads and job hoppers do better at them than devs who actually solve real world problems on a daily basis); meanwhile, they learn a great deal about you and your company if they're paying attention (none of it good, e.g. "I'm smarter than you" attitude, micromanaging culture).

1b. You're more likely to detect BS from a dev candidate if you have them at ease in an interview, particularly the first technical round (conversational, trading "war stories," etc.).

1c. A take home code challenge, followed by code review interview, will actually teach you what you were trying to learn in the live coding challenge interview (by making them justify their decisions, even if - also unpopular - they swiped code from some repo, Stack Overflow etc.), without making you and your company look like micromanaging dicks in the process.