I find if/else to be more confusing than ternary operators. One of the reasons is that it always defines what the else clause is, while that usually doesn't happen when using if.
I'd agree that someone who is not used ternary operators might be confused with this, as I have been before, but I find it to be much cleaner now that I've been using it. It's also a little harder to debug.
One thing that really annoyed me in some monospaced fonts with ligatures is the [] ligature, I never understood why would someone rather see a box instead of two brackets. I'm no typographer, but I think that it makes the text lose its uniformity, because [] and [0] will look weird close to each other.
I guess I'm not alone in this, because in the Fira Code repo there's this commit from 2 months ago: "Remove [] ligature from specimen".
IDK how NLL's ACR works, but Android API doesn't expose audio output devices because it could lead to piracy issues, such as recording whatever is playing on Spotify. I don't think there's a way to bypass that, and if there were it would probably be banned from Google Play Store.
The point of exclusivity is creating a safe space for women; for men most spaces are safe spaces - I can assert that as a male.
It doesn't mean, though, that we can deal with toxic masculinity without men being involved. I do remember seeing some serious effort within Thoughtworks (and I haven't even worked there) to discuss gender issues without excluding men, so it's not a impossible thing.
Example pictures are kind of small, hard to see the quality of the result. Also, I'd use this for a Kindle device, not an iPad, so it'd be also good to see how it looks in a Kindle.
Arnold said he's got help from lots of people and it's very likely that most of them didn't get anything in return. Were these people adept of ethical egoism, none of them would've helped him.
I'm a Sansei in Brazil, which essentially means most people think I'm Japanese while the Japanese think I'm not, so I've peeked both sides and I can tell you this: yes, childhood in Japan can be amazing, but certainly Japanese culture in general isn't about independence, it's actually quite the opposite, it's about order and individuals adhering to his/her role in this order. "Do as your parents said, get into college, respect your boss." It's even kind of bittersweet that childhood in Japan is so good, because you'll grow up knowing what you've lost. On the other hand, it's also not all smell of flowers, because children being independent also means that if mom isn't home, you have to be the responsible sibling, it could be a form to shorten childhood.
Paper says that "those in lambda group received no benefits in regard to [...] compiler errors".
Really, would anyone expect lambdas to improve compiler errors? Also, isn't that a problem of the compiler, and not of the lambda idiom in C++ or C++ language itself?
I mean, idk about clang, but at least compiler errors from msvc and gcc have always been hard to understand, with or without lambdas.
* Edit after down votes:
Sarcasm is specially regarded as negative behavior in HN, but negativeness for negativeness, this article shouldn't even be here. It's filled with destructive criticism and unjustified claims. I'd accept the wallpaper argument from any person who hardly sits in front of a computer, not from someone whose primary occupation is to write about technology, not from someone who's been using Linux for 20 years (first thing to do? check man pages, do your research). I understand the down votes, but seriously, this article only makes me angry - maybe that's why John Dvorak is widely regarded as a troll.
Very good, but needs a option for resizing. I've tried looking at monospaced fonts and couldn't see them at a size that a monospaced font would actually be used (default is huge).
I'd agree that someone who is not used ternary operators might be confused with this, as I have been before, but I find it to be much cleaner now that I've been using it. It's also a little harder to debug.