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  • As someone working on wrapping up my bachelor’s in software engineering… Yeah… Fuck frameworks.

    Everything I’ve been taught thus far has been nice, neat, logical code that has been explained completely. How does memory get allocated for that string? What exactly is a memory stack? How do pointers work? It all just made sense.

    Then I get to the last 10 classes of my degree, and as a prerequisite for the last 9 I got treated to “java frameworks”. The classwork essentially teaches me to explicitly ignore how the framework accomplishes the end result, and to instead focus on memorizing bullshit one-line commands that are specific to whatever jackass framework I’m working in.

    I’ve spent like 3 weeks straight watching crash course after crash course, trying to find anyone that actually explains the fundamentals of frameworks. Best I could find was an explanation of MVC (model/view/control), but I still don’t see how all that bullshit is easier that writing your own code!!

    Fuck frameworks.








  • Grew up in southern Idaho. Yeah that’s pretty much what I experienced growing up, too!

    Wasn’t just admitting wrongness that was seen as weakness, though - honestly I came to find that most empathetic, society benefitting behaviors are spun and contorted into a weakness.

    Ironic to me that, at least thru my eyes, spinning stuff like that into a “weakness” indicates to me that they’re avoiding the work they’d need to put in to be better… Which, is the real weakness here!

    I think a significant portion of the problems in the US stems from a lack of willingness to work on themselves, aiming to minimize their impact on those around them (and thus themselves, through societal proxy). On the contrary, people install loud ‘mufflers’ to show they don’t give a fuck. Or leave carts outside the corral. Or scream at fast food workers, display flagrant racism, refuse to wear COVID masks - whatever.

    Good ol Golden Rule really would solve it all, I think.