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nick_
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
I fully agree.

I think a major meta-problem with patterns is that the straight-forward ones get written about the most, and/or read about the most. Now we have tons of devs out there who pledge allegiance to some subset of whatever patterns they've come across. I wonder if that prevents/delays pattern transcendence to see the nuance.
nick_
·27 dagen geleden·discuss
Are you asking what A) the countries that meddle with US elections, and B) their relationship to the US, has to do with Israel, on this comment thread?
nick_
·28 dagen geleden·discuss
Does the UK or Japan engage in election meddling in the US?
nick_
·28 dagen geleden·discuss
Are North Korea and Russia "allies" of the US?
nick_
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Can you point me to a language that encodes the handling of errors in a less verbose way than C++/Java/C# exception handling?
nick_
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
You're right about recover being in 1.0 of golang.

I definitely fully understand the trade-offs of returning result/error unions vs handling thrown exceptions. Exception handling is clearly superior to me. That said, the typical performance complaints made against the most common implementations of exceptions are valid.
nick_
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
The anti-exception mind virus of the 2010s did a lot of damage. Go designers finally caved and added panic & recover, but jeez, the damage was done. The whole ecosystem has exception derangement syndrome.
nick_
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
The convention of explicit error handling after every method call is absolutely bonkers to me. I would never use it for anything serious.
nick_
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
AFAIK this is called sleep consolidation.
nick_
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
For the few times a month I need to have two windows/panes visible at the same time, I take five seconds positioning and sizing them then move on.
nick_
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Same. Need multiple terminals visible at once? New window. Need a few separate sessions? New tab(s).

All the bells and whistles people have shown me over the years... it never even gets close to making me think "oh yea, that's better than basic tab/window management and the terminal app that comes with my OS".
nick_
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Do they build a lot of cinder block homes with flat, tarred roofs?
nick_
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
The blog post points or the flawed spacecraft? /s
nick_
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Do you think sex and gender are the same thing?
nick_
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
TUIs are very in right now. Nostalgia/vintage-computin-aesthetics & guru-gatekeeping around command line savviness are front and centre in the HN-and-adjacent mindshare.
nick_
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Is the Israeli intelligence facial recognition system in the room with us now?
nick_
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Tha...
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·6 maanden geleden·discuss
/s?
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·7 maanden geleden·discuss
The only comic worse is Garfield. I have no idea how anyone enjoys either of them.
nick_
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
Yep my electronics engineer dad was like "you cannot do this" but it worked! He got me to put an aligator clip wire from case to case so the grounding would at least be joined?