hairyballs

@hairyballs@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And here you’re only talking about a subset of memory leaks, by inaccessible memory. You can also leak memory by pushing new elements in a channel while never reading them for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We can go further, I think it’s impossible to prevent memory leaks in a general purpose language

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which programming language is hard to understand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Elm compiler

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a mass extinction event⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF I didn’t understand, thanks for the explanation. The fact that it’s used all around the world in big companies doesn’t matter I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao, what the heck. I’ve heard about that, but I still cannot believe it’s true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I changed my career direction (industry, tech stack…) but before that, my CV only was enough for me to get hired. They would just verify the information, and sometimes, there weren’t even a single tech interview.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was so lucky in the interview for my current job: I’m working on a product with a big networking component, and I was asked to write an echo server with low level components. That was maybe the second time I had a test related to the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing ONCE, a new line of software products from 37signals: Pay one time, own forever.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This comparing something you buy once, with a license does not make a lot of sense. In SaaS, you get update, support, etc. For something critical, I’d rather get that than something that I buy once and may be buggued in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They tried⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the fuck would they prevent private browsing? I use that a lot to be sure the session is closed correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Worst Programmer I Know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What the actual fuck. It’s a made up story I’m sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love all my statements equally. (I don't care for GOTO)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My coworkers do document the code:

  /// Returns a list of foos, given a bar. 
  fn get_foos_from_bar(bar: Bar)
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recursion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they just don’t like cringe