jbooth

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by jbooth 13y ago
I really can't wait to spend more time learning Rust, but that bit you just put out strikes me as a fair bit more complex than just multiple returns plus "don't ignore your errors, dude, you crazy?". We've got the
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by jbooth 13y ago
I think the poster was saying that java exceptions don't tend to force error handling to the same degree as the multiple-returns approach does. "But it's a checked exception!" Like 90% of the code I've written in J
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yes, but reading code is much more important than writing it in most contexts, and you're not limited by typing speed anyways. The one-liner would be harder for me to unpack, in most situations, than a 3-liner. You've got 3 calls
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by jbooth 13y ago
There's a robust syscall package that you can use to do whatever you want. And, under the hood, all of their net.Conn types use non-blocking i/o combined with the goroutine scheduler. Basically, the philosophy is that rather than
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by jbooth 13y ago
I can't really give a good example because I'm not sure how it happens, it just has, for me. Maybe it happens in spite of the error handling. Anyways, I think that weaving the error handling code into the mainline of your algorit
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by jbooth 13y ago
Now you've got way less code, and way more cognitive load per line. There's a reason why hideous Java is so successful while beautiful Haskell is a punchline to jokes.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's actually awesome. At first it feels ugly to write, and you're generating all this unnecessary noise in your code, but then you finish a big project and overall the manual error checking combined with defer leads to less co
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by jbooth 13y ago
The poster was talking about an $8/hr temp job. He's already made a decision to trade dignity for necessity. Defending dignity at 'all costs' makes it sound like you've never had to make a hard decision in your lif
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by jbooth 13y ago
Lesson learned: Next time just give them dumb ideas and don't stand out.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Just the whole cult of personality, near-godhood thing.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's a public perception and media job. Being popular is literally the job description. We're not talking about some poor persecuted office worker who just happens to hold unpopular views and now can't hold a job anymore. M
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, at least you didn't mention Hitler. Mozilla made a business decision that the guy was a liability for a public non-profit. That's capitalism, not totalitarianism.
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by jbooth 13y ago
To piggyback, there's an additional difference between being a public-facing CEO of, say, McDonald's, Exxon or Apple, and being the public-facing CEO of a non-profit which exists due to the donations of primarily liberal and liber
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's pretty rare for someone to come in pointing out flaws in an argument they agree with. You say that you did agree with me, so my apologies for attributing that view to you.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Apparently you feel obligated to disagree with my substance, but had to settle for attacking my writing style. It wasn't pre-emptive or a straw man -- the poster had just (not pre-emptive) said that living standards were an unfair comp
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by jbooth 13y ago
..and the right-wing juntas up and down latin america were subsidized by the US. Cuba still did better. You could say, "But that's not a fair comparison, the USSR subsidized things that actually helped people in Cuba while the US
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, the US has a pretty checkered history regarding Cuba if you're going to talk about altruism. I'd say we've done more to inadvertantly prop up that regime than to undermine it. There are 3 nominally communist countries
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm a big believer in benchmarking before saying things, but I think we could skip the benchmarks when asking the question "does 1 4096-byte read or 4096 1-byte reads complete faster".
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by jbooth 13y ago
So was Romney, all of those things. Not that I think Christie's going anywhere.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Right, thanks. Either way, it's not rocket surgery.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's definitely a basic feature of any language, including Java. I have no idea what the people upthread are talking about. From memory (may not compile) (edit thanks to cbsmith) import java.io.*; public static void main(String[] args
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm dissapointed in Obama on this issue too, especially compared to his history of statements before becoming president, but I can't even list the ways that metaphor ran off the rails.
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by jbooth 13y ago
If he had that cash, why didn't he just buy the damn house himself?
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by jbooth 13y ago
Sounds great, you should run for the job. I'm sure if we just elected someone who was leader-y enough, they'd be able to turn that ship on a dime.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Ha, fair enough. That slipped my mind, and now I'm going to go read up on the details of how exactly that happened, mechanically. EDIT: Just a general assembly vote was enough, apparently. That's a weird situation all around th
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the 5 permanent members are 'made men' and can't be revoked, but even if there were a mechanism, you can bet that China would veto it. The UN isn't NATO -- the whole point of it is to have a common f
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by jbooth 13y ago
No, they'll simply deny they ever held the view in a few years, all on their own. See: Segregation.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Does it matter? The job is a tech community job. If he were publicly in favor of warrantless wiretapping, he'd be catching even more crap about it from the tech community, yet the tech community is even further out of step from mainst
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's only partisan if the community's split on the issue -- it's not partisan to be against slavery or support women's suffrage, even though it once was, and it's rapidly becoming non-partisan to support equal right
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by jbooth 13y ago
Gonna jump in here -- what makes you so sure it's grants rather than the way college loans work? I haven't done the numbers but I suspect there's like 10x as much tuition coming from loans as there is from grants -- wouldn&#x

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