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It's time to refactor the last ten years of professional web development.



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What programming projects have you completed in the last 10 years?


Too many to list. Currently working as a senior programmer for the user-facing client for a company worth hundreds of millions, with an app store rating of 4.9.

Previously, I've developed open source software that got 5000-10000 downloads a day, and a few private commercial projects that pulled in a few thousand dollars a month.

A recent open source project on github has 8k stars.

Is that enough credentials to listen to what I say?


It's enough credentials to make your criticisms worth thinking about. It's fascinating how, in a few years, I got so familiar with the commandline and never felt like it was too complicated (although I do almost everything through it), both at work and privately.

Maybe, with a skillset like that, you could just make the things better that you dont like, instead of what looks like "just complaining".


I have in the past implemented my own shell to work around some of the limitations the usual one had.

But today, I feel no real motivation to do so, because I know that if I tried to release this, the main response I would get would essentially be complaints that I shouldn't be changing things. I don't think any attempt to improve things would be accepted, because people refuse to believe there is anything wrong with what we have.


How did you decide what program runs when a user types a command in a directory, without using the concept of a path?




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