je42

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   by je42 14y ago

   on how many android devices have you tested it ?
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   by je42 14y ago

   oops sorry for the typo ;)
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   by je42 14y ago

   that does not scale. you can have hundreds of calls that require error handling inside your code. considering your example you would get the section "//handle you error" hundreds of times. sprinkled all over the place.
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   by je42 14y ago

   so you prefer to decentralize your exception handling code ? how do you scale that ?
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   by je42 14y ago

   Thanks ! I just thought i was missing somehting , that Heisenberg did not mention exception wrapping. The funny thing about that technique is, that a lot of people do know it, they ususlly just print a strack trace and ignore the exception.
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   by je42 15y ago

   I dont understand this. According to some believe exceptions should be used in an exceptional context. Can anybody define what exceptional is? I use exception to get the context in which the error happend. Call stack, variables, stuff like
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   by je42 15y ago

   Am I the only one that thinks the tutorials are a bit weird. For example: their QuickSort implementation looks pretty much "sub-optimal"". ( They allocate new arrays in each recursive call ) Another example: Shortest-Path search. A-Star is
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   by je42 15y ago

   totally agree !
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   by je42 16y ago

   Thank you for posting this ! The whole post means quite a bit for me. Almost every word you write feels familiar. I wish you good luck with with your startup. Actually I wish all startups having difficulty raising the next round good luck.