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by andyjpb 14y ago
I think that understanding this kind of reasoning is the central point of why they made the mistakes they did and how they could have been avoided.
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by andyjpb 14y ago
How about "Obviously this is how we should have done it in the first place. It’s not just obvious in retrospect, it should have been obvious in the beginning. We were just too focused on fixing this one problem with our current system rathe
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by andyjpb 14y ago
Throwing exceptions across API and module boundaries is a separate discussion which has separate pros and cons. When you define an API in a language that has exceptions you should be careful to define the behaviour around how exceptions are
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by andyjpb 14y ago
In the specific case of Java, it looks like the compiler understands that you might want to use exceptions for flow control or other things. How else would you explain behaviour such as this: http://jawspeak.com/2010/05/26/hotspot-caused-e
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by andyjpb 14y ago
How about call/cc and setjmp/longjmp ?
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by andyjpb 14y ago
I generally agree but I'd replace "unless they can show mathematical proof" with "unless they can show a code profile". Happy days!
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by andyjpb 14y ago
h2s: Can you explain to us what exactly is the difference between the implementation of flow control during exception throwing and all the other kinds of flow control (including, but not limited to, stack popping).
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A Manifesto For Error Reporting(drmaciver.com)
72 points by andyjpb 14y ago|31 comments
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by andyjpb 14y ago
This is why Reply-To, Errors-To, From, MAIL-From, Sender, etc. are all separate headers.
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by andyjpb 14y ago
Have you considered the Thinkpad X220?
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by andyjpb 15y ago
Hi, On the one hand I hope his friend is right: RDBMS isn’t suddenly a useless technology. It does, however, suffer from an image problem. Both in terms of the ‘cult of the DBA’ (and their friends the ‘priesthood of storage’) as well as mor
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by andyjpb 16y ago
Similar to The Right Tool ( http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com ) for Languages, DRMacIver peels back the hype and reveals the strengths and weaknesses of different Database Engines.
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The Right Tool?(therighttool.hammerprinciple.com)
11 points by andyjpb 16y ago|1 comments