bogomog

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25 days agodiscuss

I was mildly disappointed the other day when I did a <C-h a>, and instead of "apropos" I saw "search for command". Apropos was one of those killer features that was, as far as I know, unique to emacs (until the "command palette" appeared in one of the newer editors).

26 days agodiscuss

20 or 25 years ago it almost never crashed. Now I might see a crash or freeze once a week or so. And slowdowns several times a day. Of course I'm running more modes now in a more customized environment. Hopefully this new version with more in it will improve the situation.

3 months agodiscuss

A modernization, really.

8 months agodiscuss

My favorite, kind of ironic, advantage of tubes over transistors is that it's easier to source replacements.

8 months agodiscuss

But capacitors may hold high voltage DC, if there's no path to discharge them.

10 months agodiscuss

The arc of the U.S. economy over the last 80 years contradicts your position. There has been reduced regulation since the Reagan administration, and also reduced competition. A few blips when internet companies "disrupted" an existing industry, but those industries fairly quickly consolidated on a small group of players.

10 months agodiscuss

And to add to this, you rarely need to read a log message when just visually scanning code, its fine going off the screen.

10 months agodiscuss

That's why Python should have gone all-in on significant spaces: tabs for blocks, spaces after tabs for line continuation

10 months agodiscuss

I find it jarring compared to commas after the words, making the commas unnecessarily prominent.

10 months agodiscuss

+1 to this. Why throw away an extra dimension of expression available by choices in formatting in the name of consistency? I find it helpful to use blank lines to separate code into "paragraphs". A complex conditional may be made more readable by extra space in some places an not others. A series of single line if statements might be clearer formatted lined up vertically, like a table.

11 months agodiscuss

yes

11 months agodiscuss

Aye.

11 months agodiscuss

Yeah, that stood out to me as a virtual tie also. When I got pretty good at debugging was when I began to recognize which of these approaches would likely be most effective in a given situation, and when to back out and use another approach, or mix approaches.

last yeardiscuss

I think graphical debuggers are a big help: 1. It separates the meta-information of the debugger into the graphical domain. 2. It's easier to browse code and set/clear breakpoints using the mouse than the keyboard.

last yeardiscuss

That's why I gave the caveat that if using a language with the ternary operator, one should know that operator. Python tried using English words for a ternary, but I think that's awkward from a readability perspective. A limited set of symbolic syntax improves readability over using words in my opinion, there's less text to scan.

last yeardiscuss

  function getOddness(n: number):
    return (n % 2 === 0)
      ? "Even"
      : "Odd";

Lowest boilerplate makes it the most readable. If working in a language with the ternary operator it ought to be easily recognized!