Anders429

@Anders429@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Libraries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That definitely wasn’t the case for this small-town library.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Libraries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  About ten years back, I had moved away from home and was living in a small town with no Internet in my apartment. The only internet connection I had was the local library.

  I remember being so surprised at the amount of viruses on those dumb computers. I wondered what the heck people were doing to them to get them in that state, and then one time I saw some dude looking up porn and just downloading whatever programs the pages he came to told him to.

  Anyway, I’m glad I have Internet in my apartment now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FLOSS communities right now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, you ever tried to look back through a long thread on Discord? It’s impossible. If you want to read the original message that started the thread, good luck, you’ll be scrolling all day and may never get there. How anyone can claim that’s “easy to use” is beyond me.

  Discord works for quick discussions happening right now, and that’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1 follower on GitHub = 1000 followers on other platforms 😅⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really get why we need social media elements in GitHub at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coding Addiction: How Programming Affects Your Brain⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First 1/3rd is a bit of fluff but after that, good article.

  Ah yes, the Wadsworth constant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I convince my company to add tests for FE?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What does “FE” stand for in this context? Sorry if it’s obvious, I just don’t see anywhere that it’s actually written out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advent of code starts in less than 12 hours!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure hope this is not how most CS courses are being taught

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advent of code starts in less than 12 hours!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You gonna do Rust again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advent of code starts in less than 12 hours!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought problem inputs were randomized for each user?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone got a non-paywalled link?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been this way for years. Really?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill is a pro grammer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the heck does it need to be dynamically allocated? Just put that puppy on the stack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone has started answering to the github stalebot with memes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that in this case the maintainers are in the wrong for not even responding to the issue, not the reporter responding with memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the myth of type safety⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this same thing happen with Python’s type hints. Turns out giving an “escape hatch” type for devs who have no clue what the type actually is leads to a lot of useless type hints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merge then review⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I’m really disappointed, it’s just full of posts from parody accounts with people in the comments not realizing it isn’t real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merge then review⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bet you $50 we later learn this guy was orchestrating a supply chain attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Demotivating a (Skilled) Programmer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be titled, “demotivating a programmer with a specific personality type.” Sure, some good programmer you know doesn’t value money; that doesn’t mean every skilled programmer won’t value it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing is not a programming bottleneck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a bit confused about the premise of the article. Does anyone assert that typing speed is a bottleneck at all? I’ve been in the industry for years, and have never heard that claim.

  I do agree about the whole “less code is not always more”, but I get confused when the author keeps bringing it back to typing speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We did this to ourselves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheaper? Yes, I guess so, depending on how you measure cost. More useful? Absolutely disagree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Useless syntax sugar": Numbered block parameters in Ruby⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I sincerely doubt Rust would ever add something like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there something better than SQL?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, it still happens all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a leaked memo, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke put limits on employees having side hustles, saying Shopify requires 'unshared attention'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s explicitly illegal in California? I’ve never heard that before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forbidden topics of hacker communities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing Drew DeVault writes is worth reading, and this is no exception.