gthrowaway52

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by gthrowaway52 4y ago
There is a lot of confirmation bias in this post. I will leave it at that.
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by gthrowaway52 4y ago
Maybe I misinterpreted you. I don't disagree that checked exceptions and errors are ~the same thing. > Go programmers, in 99.9% of cases, do manually what exceptions do automatically Our experience working with Go must be very diffe
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by gthrowaway52 4y ago
I'm talking about unchecked exceptions. It's not about what is possible it's about what patterns a language encourages. It feels like we've lost the thread of discussion. - You say there is no difference between unch
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by gthrowaway52 4y ago
In Go the programmer is forced to make a decision on what to do with the error. Common patterns include (A) return an annotated error, (B) log it and continue, (C) retry, (D) aggregate the errors in some way. If you believe the only way to
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by gthrowaway52 4y ago
Well, yes, the menial parts of review can and should be automated. Big tech cos are leading the industry, and ML does find its way in there (with mixed success). But at its core, code review is putting two heads together to write some code
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by gthrowaway52 6y ago
> Just take a step back and think about what you're saying: that a bitcoin transaction would cost £3.40 in the UK I hope I'm not misinterpreting your point, but bitcoin transactions cost even more than that. https://
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by gthrowaway52 6y ago
Ignoring the article since it has almost no information in it. I don't view the company is overall evil. I view it as a boring megacorp. One that makes news cycles because of internal activism. The smaller companies I've worked at