Interview with a Senior Python Developer - Part1 

Ah yes, I relate so much

im laughing my ass of for the first time in months

@@unflexian Happy for you 😀. Laughing is fun.

@@JustinLCooper you know what else is fun? List comprehension

I fucking broke out laughing when he said that

burst out laughing with that one

You just have the best sex of your life with bloody TENSORFLOW DEPENDENCIES ON cursed M1 CPU. Damn! Sometimes I doubt my life choices.

@Peter Clay Can I get a pit of an ellaboration? xD

"I usually tell my students to pivot their idea, then," hahaha!

I've had my first experience of that kind recently. Gave me the same fuzzy feelings like apt dependency hell.

which py

my workstation had a problem: there was conda but command python directed to python from visual studio, pip directed to Microsoft store's python and pip3 directed to my normal python installation. Why? How? idk. After that I removed all pythons and never used anything but conda ever again. But now conda's getting slow AF so I'm considering moving to mamba...

this xD

@@andrey2001v what I do to solve this problem on windows: remove all pythons, pips, etc. from your PATH. then create a new folder somewhere and add that folder to your PATH. Then create symlinks to the various binaries you care about in that folder and u can name them whatever you want to avoid confusion.

I've only recently started to learn python and used it for less than a week when I started running into this problem :/

This cracked me up 😂

☠

"It's a django"*

@@kkmanos4201lololol you guys gotta stop😂

its a django

His knowledge on vim was poor

Not just how they work but also all nuance and practical problems with each language.

@Danilo No, it's a way of life. !wq

@@Phroggster god you made my day...😁

@@quebono100 I guess you are offended.

That part I didn't completely understand, as a non natively English speaker. It's about realizing their idea but changing it, so it works with Python?

@@sevdev9844 I think it means abandoning their idea for something that actually works - that's how I took it

@@sevdev9844 He was talking about dependencies (all the libraries your software depends on). Dependencies conflicts usually happen when several of your Python packages have the same dependency but with different incompatible versions. It's hell to resolve this kind of problem. And when you will ask your teacher / senior engineer for advice, he will tell you : "Hmmm ... Let me see ... you should try to pivot your idea ...". Meaning : find another way to code that without those packages = a lot of code to rewrite because he has no idea how to resolve this kind of problem and he can't be bothered to really look into it

@@zaedvfdsd3903 I felt it was more about people trying to make startups and stuff and building MVP in python

@@zaedvfdsd3903 I was thinking this meant "give up on your dreams", so the original comment of "this resonated with me" worried me a bit

PyQt*. It's great, nothing else comes close.

PyQt? More like crash on exit. I've had to write an app to kill itself because it had no safe way of closing. I like to think it's in a better place now, like production.

@@Henfredemars That's something in your code. I've had no such issues and dealing with plenty of persistence.

@@incremental_failure It's great but more greater is Electron or don't write useless desktop apps in 2023

@@incremental_failure I may be crazy but I like tkinter I find it's easy to use just like vim

There is no such thing in the job market, you enter the C++ realm you automatically age several years and become a senior 🧓🏼

Thats contradictary

@@Golipillas There probably is. In the Game Industry.

@@yurisoares2596 Maybe for junior game engine engineers, otherwise aren't they usually using scripting languages that the engine parses?

@@BudgiePanic I dunno I'm not directing my studies towards that field, I'm just a lover of games. But I think there are plenty of games even AA and AAA that are built in Unity which uses C#.

man if your comphrensions don't span across 5 lines at least you're doing it wrong

It can always be more awful. My worst offender was a three-line set comprehension where the elements where dicts. The overloading of the curly braces is likely to trip up somebody, pure evil.

"Such a messy language... I love it". Senior Javascript Developer.

@@stenakestrid This is how you ensure keeping your job / clients

Come back to me when you get it longer than your method line length standard.

[[Legacy codebase intensifies]]

What exactly is the joke? I've learned about a semester's worth of C and that's literally what I do. Ples explain.

@@heyosss1050 Global variables (particularly ones that can be modified, as opposed to constants) are considered very bad practice, as it makes code much harder to follow. For example, without globals, you can see at a glance what any given function might do, because it only operates on the arguments you pass to it. On the other hand, if a function can mess around with globals, then it has so-called "side effects" that are really hard to see. Someone could call that function and not realize that it's messing with global data. Any two functions which are completely unrelated in the tree of function calls can directly affect each other through modifying and reading globals. In certain cases and certain environments, globals are unavoidable. But 7 times out of 10, when a new global gets created, it was probably a bad idea. The joke here is that in Python (disclaimer: I don't use Python), most things are passed by reference and could be modified by any function, and deep chains of variables passed by reference is almost as hard to follow as globals.

@@bammam5988 to be fair it's the same in Java and most of other languages I feel. Objects are references. Aren't they?

@@jean4j_ Different languages have different ways of dealing with this. Again, I can't actually speak to Python since I don't use it. Most object-oriented langauges of course offer "public", "private", and sometimes other access modifiers. In Java, you can create "unmodifiable" versions of collections to return in a class's public interface. Both Java and C# have "interface" types, which allows you to limit the ways you can interact with an object. And C# takes this further with built-in "read-only" interfaces over collections, so you could return an array as an "IReadOnlyList" to prevent anybody from modifying it. C++ has a very interesting approach. Along with access modifiers and something like "interface types", you can mark variables and functions as "const". This is a compiler-enforced promise that the object won't be modified. For example, if you mark an object's member function "const" then the function cannot modify any of its fields (in other words, the "this" variable is const). And if you have a const reference to an instance of that class, then you can only call its "const" functions.

I was waiting the entire video to hear him say something about machine learning. Perfect placement...right at the end

And the tensorflow easteregg around 4:30

Hey man, did made a small app with flask and dash/plotly which is mega fragile and hacky. For some reason still going strong after 2 years and lots of users.

@@frank8627-v8k What was the name of the company? JustWerx㋏

"nothing lasts longer than a makeshift solution" is a quote I will use for the rest of my life.

thanks for the quote

Any reasons to pick up Flask over express/fastify except you know Python and don't know JS? If you are writing API that sends JSONs, i think the most comfortable is to write in JS.

Defo

that's the bait for the second part for sure :)

python-is-python3 is one of those simple Linux packages that should not exist, but does and solves whole classes of bugs while creating new ones.

well pyGTK also exists

And pysimplegui and so so many more

gtk>>>> all my homies hate plasma

WxPython is my go to

Mine is tkinter

Naw he wrote a python script

@@southpole76Through his EMACs of course

Chill. They are funny, but not Silicon Valley kind of funny.

silicon valey is for people who want to code these videos are for people whose souls have been taken away from coding too much

What's your field?

@@mastershooter64 astronomy

All that (Ana)Conda/Homebrew business is for Windows and Mac platforms, where package management is not quite as advanced as Linux.

"Lifetimes". "Memory safety." "Memory safety." "70% of bugs at Microsoft". "Safe code, unsafe code, with memory safety". "No inheritance". "No null".

@@berylliosis5250 "what you need here is an Arc", "marcos", "; {}", "the future", "performance with safety". "cargo build, cargo run", "oh no, you dont need to return a result here, just do a .unwrap()", "this will replace C and C++ and Go and every other language"

I had a Rust joke but I’m rewriting it in Rust

if python, might as well

What exactly is the joke? I've learned about a semester's worth of C and that's literally what I do. Ples explain.

@@heyosss1050 I think because staring at the camera = finding out something

@@sbypasser819 Oh like this is some revelation to him? lol nice

Git would be gold!

HAHHA yes pls and maybe also rust :P

+1 Lua hobbyist here. He can start by saying why it has never mooned

"Haskell is useless."

And after you put plenty of efforts in, you realise that it's not good enough, but it's too late now

Yep,... in Python I spend the of the time figuring out the available functions, names, and what is where located ... by browsing docs on each run-time crash. In statically typed languages it's prevented by compiler and very easy thing with auto-completion. This actually stands in the way of coding, because I have to waste time on technicalities.

But if you see "Python2" it automatically means it is (probably) no longer mantained and good luck with bugs you'll find