blobs · HackerTrans

6 years agodiscuss

While economy and consumerism are destroying our planet, we are complaining about the UX of an emergency call.. In other news stories I see participants of Extinction Rebellion being arrested by police as if they were criminals, while temperatures world wide are breaking all records and the ramifications are clearly seen almost anywhere on the planet. It just renders me speechless.

blobs

6 years agodiscuss

Especially the tests should prove it. In almost none of the comments I see thorough testing is taken into consideration. No IDE can replace good tests today AFAIK.

blobs

6 years agodiscuss

> I’m prevented from ever achieving a fluid coding style because the coding is not coming entirely from my head. My coding has become a constant dialog with IntelliSense.

This.

Code should live in your head. You shouldn't need intellisense to see that a property doesn't exist in an object. I hate code completion, most of the time it gets in the way of your thought process. Even if it can gain you a little speed increase, it still is better to write things down for your 'codebase memory'.

That's why I despise the current web development stack. You need Typescript, otherwise you might make a mistake with types? Never had that problem in the past. And just like typo's I make mistakes a once in a while, but that's OK because it helps me to learn the codebase better. You need a linter? Same story, it's always in the way as if it is more capable than me writing code. Prettier? It automatically formats your code, so the codebase doesn't resemble the one in your head anymore.

I know it does work for some people and I can totally imagine that for a beginner developer it can make the difference, but for me it doesn't. In the current/modern web stack I feel like having brick walls everywhere around me and my code is definitely not getting better from it, I'm just constantly struggling with all those 'handy' and 'necessary' tools while my code memory deteriorates. Even worse is that on almost any project I professionally work on requires all those tools, not using them makes me an amateur, even in the eyes of junior dev's.

I believe in writing every character of my code and testing it thoroughly, I wrote many bug free codebases with it, that's my experience.

blobs

6 years agodiscuss

I assume the amount of HN articles per day has increased over the years since 2007 along with the growth of HN popularity. So, when I see a trend in some subject would it take that into account? Otherwise it could easily not be a trend but an increased amount of HN users.

Just curious before I get excited.

blobs

6 years agodiscuss

Whatever words you use, it simply conflicts with basic JS and is a serious flaw.

  const cat = new Cat();
  if (cat instanceof Dog) console.log('this should never be possible!');

What is this strange protective behavior towards TS, can we stick to logic please?

blobs

6 years agodiscuss

> TypeScript crew have managed to build something that can get traction where other efforts have not.

You mean Microsoft managed to get traction? It seems most TS proponents don't realize TS is a success because they fell for smart marketing and serious money behind the project, not because it's a better language than 'other efforts' like for example Purescript or Dart.

But every comment I make against TS seems futile. TS proponents defend their little language very fiercely regardless of all the flaws it has. It's almost worth a study how Microsoft managed to do that. Overall a real pity, because there are so many better options and ideas for those who want static typing. TS is actually the worse choice IMAO.

blobs

6 years agodiscuss

Because the UX suffers from UI design that is driven by marketing. UI design should be driven by a passion to create the best UX, but that's almost impossible in this $$$ world..

blobs

6 years agodiscuss

2 things come to mind here:

A leopard cannot change its spots.

Confidence comes on foot but goes on horseback

I moved to FF + Duckduckgo engine a while ago, it will be extremely hard for them to win me back.

blobs

6 years agodiscuss

I moved back to linux (fedora) a while ago, what a relief and what a joy it is compared to Windows.

I use Firefox with duckduckgo search engine, no pages full of ad results like with google nowadays. I cannot think of 1 single reason to install Windows 10 and use Chrome browser, you just bite yourself with that choice.

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

Problem? There is a solution though: https://www.sulapac.com/

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

> Without ego humanity may not have made it this far.

This far? You mean on the road to our complete extinction due to our incomparable stupidity? I sometimes feel truly ashamed to be a human. It's the ego that ruins it all, we could have been so much further. People should learn to be more humble and reject the desire for authority.

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

> False confidence may be the route to happiness or at least optimism.

For many indeed this leads to some kind of 'happiness'. Buffering our inabilities with lying to ourselves about it. Why did we never learn to be truly happy while being average or even below average. Why did we never learn to tame the ego? It's a curse for life.

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

> But tbh our school system just teaches a baseline of abilities we think our youths should know.

Just teaches? You mean forces upon children maybe? So what about being punished for not reaching that baseline? What do we learn from that? We learn so much more than the stuff in the textbooks. Our schools and surroundings teach us to be stupid about so many things, it's completely overlooked.

If the result of schools were to be good, how come this civilization is characterized by: war, pollution, destruction of species, poverty, etc, etc.. Something must be wrong there, it must be our education not coincidence.

> a baseline of abilities we think our youths should know.

Yes interesting. What 'we' think.. I think differently, for sure.

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

> The star of the show in optional chaining is the new ?. operator for optional property accesses.

Wow, that took a while! For already about 9 years this feature is in Coffeescript. And indeed it must be the star of the show because once you're used to that you almost can't live without it. Why did JS/ESxx never copied that idea?

edit: just read it has just been added to JS some days ago as well..

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

Our school system.. We don't dare to be honest we do not know stuff. For our entire youth we are punished for that with bad figures and bullying.

Therefore the picture at the top of the article is so fitting. Especially lots of people that are graduated have some kind of air around them. Our educational system fucks the mind and ego. Is Einstein not enough prove for the 'being educated' fallacy? He despised the educational system, and I think he was also very right about that.

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

Planting trees is good, but it won't solve our problems. It would be nice if governments first halt and prohibit the destruction of our existing forests in case that happens for a profit. Same counts for all other resources like gas, oil, minerals, etc.. It should not be possible to farm that for profit, it should only be allowed when there is a real proven need where the loss can be calculated and compensated to assure future life and to prevent the extinction of species.

If this depletion of resources continues at the current rate, we are in fact committing suicide at a planetary scale. The sad thing is that we can only look and talk about it, there is no control by anyone. We wanted democracy, well this is one of the traits of democracy. No control, but above all discussion and corruption(for profit). I'm afraid that if our governing systems remain dictatorial, communist, democratic, etc.. we won't make it into the next century. Mankind will eventually destroy itself(and other species) because of a lack of an intelligent governing system.

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

Totally second this. I see novice web developers writing in Typescript in an effort to be more type save and at the same time using hundreds of npm packages that are often written by amateurs that make basic mistakes.

Just take an average startups web project node_modules directory, what's inside there? Hundreds and hundreds of packages of which most are dependencies of other packages. Anyone could have written it! Novice devs swear by using Typescript, but at the same time using hundreds of black boxes that can easily contain stuff way more damaging that a string applied to a number..

Remember left-pad? That was an easy one to fix, but still caused damage at large scale. What about a vulnerability in a larger and more complex package, owned by some bad party?

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

No, not by their actions of course. It happens because of the lack of appropriate actions by them. Governments should anticipate on future events pointed out by science. And that is what they did not. All I see is business as usual.

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

> The 2019 heat was directly implicated in the deaths of at least 15 people. Five died in France,

That is not correct whoever wrote it. just do a google search: heatwave 2019 total deaths

CNN reports already 1500 deaths in France only. This is a link to a news site where they estimate a higher count, although I of course cannot verify the correctness of the source: https://www.vox.com/world/2019/6/26/18744518/heat-wave-2019-...

blobs

7 years agodiscuss

The keeping safe argument from government is indeed preposterous. As if that was their mission to keep us safe. Why are they allowing our nature to be destroyed in favor of money/economy? This years heatwaves killed many thousands of people in Europe only, some estimates are in the tens of thousands. This is real deaths in 1 year, not because of terrorist attacks, no fucking backdoor will stop this. And what are they doing? Measures that won't make any difference. The cars will keep driving, the factories continue to produce poisons. Pesticides will still be allowed for better economy at the cost of entire insect species being wiped from this planet in just a few decades. The list goes on and on. It is so sad that I don't really want to listen to politicians anymore. They are the only ones who can change things by law, not me. And what law are they coming with for my safety? A backdoor for Whatsapp and Facebook.. We better ignore all this shit and try to enjoy our little lives for as long it will last.