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Man, the downvotes lol. If you disagree just write a reply, happy to be corrected or read others opinion

by jemmyw 4y ago

Throwaway234590 4y ago
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- jemmyw 4y ago
  I didn't even disagree with anything, just asked a question! I'm not anti functional or anti imperative, they're both fine. My point was I don't think it's functional to chain method calls in JavaScript. Maybe it is, although I think you'd very easily run into an unintentional issue, i.e. call .sort() on the array which mutates it.
  - Throwaway234590 4y ago
    It's a hairpulling experience trying to write functionally in javascript. All those imperative apis like sort as you mention. I will sometimes copy as in [...xs] but I always feel like I am swimming against the current. Plenty more to say but it appears this node has been flagged, it appears HN censors criticism. Saddening.
    - freedomben 4y ago
      Being dead doesn't censor anything. After all, I'm here reading and replying 10 hours later. It just makes it invisible to people without "Show dead" enabled. Your post most assuredly got down voted to death for calling "HN" "toxic." That's not constructive at all, and it inflames emotions which is the opposite of HN's goals of technical discussion. I've taken many positions against the HN herd and yes many people do downvote on disagreement (which I agree they shouldn't), but given a bit of time it will typically even out. The new vouch system helps this even more.
      - vram22 4y ago
        >Being dead doesn't censor anything. After all, I'm here reading and replying 10 hours later. It just makes it invisible to people without "Show dead" enabled. IMO, effectively, it does censor it; not de jure, but de facto. (Hope I used those terms right, IANAL.) Because my guess is that not many HN users know about the "showdead" setting. After all, not everyone is into tinkering with systems, tweaking settings, etc., even among developers, who I guess form a sizeable percentage of users here. Some of them just want to use the software as needed and get on with their lives, even though they may be technical.
- dang 4y ago
  Please don't do this. It only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Man, the downvotes lol. If you disagree just write a reply, happy to be corrected or read others opinion

by jemmyw 4y ago

Man, the downvotes lol. If you disagree just write a reply, happy to be corrected or read others opinion

Throwaway234590 4y ago

[flagged]

jemmyw 4y ago
I didn't even disagree with anything, just asked a question! I'm not anti functional or anti imperative, they're both fine. My point was I don't think it's functional to chain method calls in JavaScript. Maybe it is, although I think you'd very easily run into an unintentional issue, i.e. call .sort() on the array which mutates it.
- Throwaway234590 4y ago
  It's a hairpulling experience trying to write functionally in javascript. All those imperative apis like sort as you mention. I will sometimes copy as in [...xs] but I always feel like I am swimming against the current. Plenty more to say but it appears this node has been flagged, it appears HN censors criticism. Saddening.
  - freedomben 4y ago
    Being dead doesn't censor anything. After all, I'm here reading and replying 10 hours later. It just makes it invisible to people without "Show dead" enabled. Your post most assuredly got down voted to death for calling "HN" "toxic." That's not constructive at all, and it inflames emotions which is the opposite of HN's goals of technical discussion. I've taken many positions against the HN herd and yes many people do downvote on disagreement (which I agree they shouldn't), but given a bit of time it will typically even out. The new vouch system helps this even more.
    - vram22 4y ago
      >Being dead doesn't censor anything. After all, I'm here reading and replying 10 hours later. It just makes it invisible to people without "Show dead" enabled. IMO, effectively, it does censor it; not de jure, but de facto. (Hope I used those terms right, IANAL.) Because my guess is that not many HN users know about the "showdead" setting. After all, not everyone is into tinkering with systems, tweaking settings, etc., even among developers, who I guess form a sizeable percentage of users here. Some of them just want to use the software as needed and get on with their lives, even though they may be technical.
dang 4y ago
Please don't do this. It only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html