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> The code is unreadable False. I can read it just fine. Ergo, it is readable. You cannot read it, and that is a different problem. > I wonder why Because t

by geocar 7y ago

> The code is unreadable False. I can read it just fine. Ergo, it is readable. You cannot read it, and that is a different problem. > I wonder why Because there are benefits you do not understand. It is very strange to me that you assume someone who does something doesn't get anything out of it simply because you don't get anything out of it.

saagarjha 7y ago
> False. I can read it just fine. Ergo, it is readable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22009831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22009831 > It is very strange to me that you assume someone who does something doesn't get anything out of it simply because you don't get anything out of it. I don't believe I assumed that?
- geocar 7y ago
  Yes. That is exactly what I mean: Reading this requires no special effort, but then I know how to read it. This is clearly your lack of ability here.
  - saagarjha 7y ago
    Can I not call anything but random noise unreadable, then?
    - geocar 7y ago
      There are plenty of other programmers just like you who can't read this. Most of them spend their time "programming" with stackoverflow on one screen and sublimetext (or whatever else is cool these days) on another and copy and paste between them. They write things like left-pad and are celebrated in stars and followers. You and you alone can decide whether you want to be more like them, or more like something else. However, when I see someone doing something I cannot do, I want to learn more. That's how I get better. I think there are other people out there like that who might just need a little bit of encouragement, and that's why I reply: Not to convince you, but to convince them it's okay to learn something that few people understand (but those that do think is really cool!)
      - JadeNB 7y ago
        > There are plenty of other programmers just like you who can't read this. Most of them spend their time "programming" with stackoverflow on one screen and sublimetext (or whatever else is cool these days) on another and copy and paste between them. I think that your second paragraph is great, but this first paragraph, which comes across as a snide judgement of your parent as an SO-reliant trend-follower, is unwarranted. Your parent may have made too hasty a declaration of unreadability, but that tells you only what kind of code saagarjha wants to read, not, except indirectly at best, what kind they write.
        geocar 7y ago
        > is unwarranted And yet accurate. People who follow trends are like other people who follow trends, at least in that way. They will never see something new so long as they do doing what everyone else does.

by geocar 7y ago

saagarjha 7y ago

> False. I can read it just fine. Ergo, it is readable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22009831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22009831 > It is very strange to me that you assume someone who does something doesn't get anything out of it simply because you don't get anything out of it. I don't believe I assumed that?

geocar 7y ago
Yes. That is exactly what I mean: Reading this requires no special effort, but then I know how to read it. This is clearly your lack of ability here.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  Can I not call anything but random noise unreadable, then?
  - geocar 7y ago
    There are plenty of other programmers just like you who can't read this. Most of them spend their time "programming" with stackoverflow on one screen and sublimetext (or whatever else is cool these days) on another and copy and paste between them. They write things like left-pad and are celebrated in stars and followers. You and you alone can decide whether you want to be more like them, or more like something else. However, when I see someone doing something I cannot do, I want to learn more. That's how I get better. I think there are other people out there like that who might just need a little bit of encouragement, and that's why I reply: Not to convince you, but to convince them it's okay to learn something that few people understand (but those that do think is really cool!)
    - JadeNB 7y ago
      > There are plenty of other programmers just like you who can't read this. Most of them spend their time "programming" with stackoverflow on one screen and sublimetext (or whatever else is cool these days) on another and copy and paste between them. I think that your second paragraph is great, but this first paragraph, which comes across as a snide judgement of your parent as an SO-reliant trend-follower, is unwarranted. Your parent may have made too hasty a declaration of unreadability, but that tells you only what kind of code saagarjha wants to read, not, except indirectly at best, what kind they write.
      - geocar 7y ago
        > is unwarranted And yet accurate. People who follow trends are like other people who follow trends, at least in that way. They will never see something new so long as they do doing what everyone else does.