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by papito 4y ago
What are you going to do with that? Keep returning errors until the calling function gets the error? That's what exceptions do for you. Do you have any guarantee that there is no bug in the error-handling code somewhere ? And what wil
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by papito 4y ago
That should be cleanly handled in a language like Python and others, where the context managers clean up the resources when exiting a scope, normally or after an exception. It's like stack unwinding is a new concept or something.
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by papito 4y ago
Computing resources were scarce, which made us better code-writers. We had to think about this. Scarcity leads to efficiency. Abundance leads to complacency. The new generation just assumes that all database/network calls and UI plum
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by papito 4y ago
In most of my code, exception handling happens in one file, one function. You throw an exception, and you let it propagate until it is handled. Why is this so hard?
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by papito 4y ago
Never understood this. I've been doing coding for a quarter century. There is a reason we moved away from manual error handling to exceptions. It's easier to reason about, it's less code, it's better. The Go fans keep
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by papito 4y ago
Flashy, but not if it's clean and professional. No bling or bright orange sneakers. I worked with a gentleman once. He was a tall, handsome, intelligent manhattanite. Very pleasant to communicate with. He told me a story of how he was
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by papito 4y ago
Absolutely. I vowed over a decade ago to never work for social media. The data is coming in, and boy, was that the right decision. I've read in the last year: * An Ugly Truth * The Coddling of the American Mind * Stolen Focus It is ho
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by papito 4y ago
Good man/woman :) I understand that some people just need a job to pay rent, and we all need to be a little selfish, making decisions that are right for us , but tech employees have a choice. You can afford to not work for a sector of
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by papito 4y ago
I love it.
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by papito 4y ago
Typical Web 3.0 bullshit. Bold claims of freedom and fairness, but you dig deeper, and it's garbage all the way down. It's libertarian anarchy "paradise".
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by papito 4y ago
So one camp says "just jump in and code", the other one advises to go full waterfall and write books of documentation. Yet again, the new generation is making the same mistakes us fossils learned from years ago. You will be shocke
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by papito 4y ago
I once got excited about ExtJS, the way it created a desktop-like experience in the browser, and I said to myself, "I will learn this, all of it, I will become an expert. Tips and tricks, best practices, the works". After six mont
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by papito 4y ago
That's why I have a problem with someone else managing my money (outside of direct fund managers, of course, who take a fixed percentage fee and are incentivized to have the fund grow, not to fleece me). https://www.youtube.
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by papito 4y ago
Well, because geniuses who were too smart for their own good turned every problem into an academic exercise, writing "elegant" code using the darkest corners of the vast language that is C++. And then we hate the language and not
555.
by papito 4y ago
There should really be a surplus of software developers. Most companies are solving problems they don't have, employing a team of 10x more developers than they need - because of course microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, you name it - ca
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by papito 4y ago
The value of Maps is in user information. They know what you look for, they know where you've been. They can extrapolate what you are doing and what you will do. This all helps in fine-tuning your marketing target profile, and servin
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by papito 4y ago
It's OK. HN is a notoriously humorless place. A Square Space, if you will.
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by papito 4y ago
Did anyone notice that the pollen season last year, after almost a year of lockdowns, was absolutely ridiculous? I do not remember anything like that. Everything was blooming and smelling well into the summer. My floor had green dust for mo
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by papito 4y ago
The difference is that the world needs Xmas lights and washer dryers.
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by papito 4y ago
Did this as far back as 18 years ago - but in a team of four people. You can see the problem with that.
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by papito 4y ago
Got arrested. Charged with battery.
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by papito 4y ago
It's a solved problem, if you are solving the right one. Most companies out there are solving problems they don't have. The FAANG disciples descended upon the world to preach the gospel of Complexity, and everyone bought it - beca
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by papito 4y ago
I will remind myself of this when I feel an oncoming panic attack before releasing to production the code that will kill absolutely zero people, even in theory.
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by papito 4y ago
I have a giant park near me, and a lake. I love it and I go there almost every day, sometimes more than once. But it's monotonous over time, same routine, same routes. It engages your autopilot and then you are just cruising through th
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by papito 4y ago
I actually WANT to go to the office, especially when it's nice out. My body is craving the walking and the activity, and the positive stress of being in a different environment is actually helping my mood significantly. I've becom
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by papito 4y ago
The best ones are where you can fly at will, and then you realize you are in a dream. You may still have a few seconds where you are semi-conscious and can "fly".
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by papito 4y ago
Well, the driverless car software will be much more solid. We hope?
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by papito 4y ago
I guess appointing your son-in-law to run the monetary policy has its quirks.
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by papito 4y ago
All you really need is "ctop", the "top" for Docker. You can view running and idle containers, start, stop, delete, view logs. https://github.com/bcicen/ctop
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by papito 4y ago
There aren't. I am not comparing the web to the market, I am pointing out that in the past the tech sector did not attract such a large number of frauds and conmen. It was just this thing the nerds did.

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