peterashford

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by peterashford 1y ago
Checked exceptions are a good idea.
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by peterashford 1y ago
I've been a developer for over three decades now and I agree with you - Lambdas are really good.
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by peterashford 1y ago
I think you might be getting at one of my favourite features of Java. It's a pretty straightforward simple language. It deals with complexity well by not being too clever. I think Go has that too, except for its error handling and perh
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by peterashford 1y ago
I'm in agreement, too. The intersection of streams and exceptions was not pretty. Streams are still good, but the feature is a little ugly
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by peterashford 1y ago
I've used Streams before to good effect but I can't say I'm in love with the design. Seems overly verbose.
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by peterashford 1y ago
I agree. The only issue for me is that they could be less verbose but given that I'm always using an IDE, this is in practice a non-issue
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by peterashford 1y ago
As someone who uses Go professionally now and Java previously, I disagree with your take on unchecked exceptions. I think that Panics and errors is worse than just using exceptions. I think the latter is just simpler to deal with. At the en
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by peterashford 1y ago
Good. I'll be pleased to see them get kicked in the nuts when the bubble bursts
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by peterashford 1y ago
Its not that I disagree that there are crap mass produced products made in China. But there are also really high quality products created there as well. It's massive market - quality varies remarkably, which was entirely my point
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by peterashford 1y ago
Lots of people have reported on this, but here's the Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by peterashford 1y ago
China's a very big place. You can't sum up the quality of "Chinese designed products" based on your experience.
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by peterashford 1y ago
ad hominem
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by peterashford 1y ago
Really not sure what point you're making at this point
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by peterashford 1y ago
"it's tempting to see modern Christianity as being a faithful reflection of what Jesus did and said" - there's also the Council of Nicea a few hundred years later where people decided on the divinity of Jesus in a very p
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by peterashford 1y ago
Yeah, I work with lots of languages too. Including c#, as it happens. It was a joke.
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by peterashford 1y ago
I don't disagree with you about the history of Israel. I don't believe the state of Israel should have been created in the first place. Not because I'm opposed to the idea of a Jewish homeland, but because I'm opposed to
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by peterashford 1y ago
Bombarding people or starving people to force them to leave is forced displacement, and so is a crime against humanity. The solution here is for the party committing the crimes to stop, not for the victims to give their land to the criminal
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by peterashford 1y ago
Right. They're usually called properties, rather than getters and setters.
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by peterashford 1y ago
No. The Hamas death toll figures are just the identified dead. They don't include people buried under rubble or who died from secondary effects (health system collapse, starvation, disease). Plenty of sources think the deaths are in th
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by peterashford 1y ago
Forced displacement is a crime against humanity.
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by peterashford 1y ago
I think you're oversimplifying. I absolutely oppose the genocide. I also support Israel's right to exist. These are different topics.
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by peterashford 1y ago
Me too. I know me too comments suck, but I really agree so wholeheartedly I decided to subject you all to it anyway. Ton for President of the World! =)
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by peterashford 1y ago
I'm a Java fan so I'm contractually required to dis c#, but actually I kinda like this. It reduces boilerplate. Yes, it could be abused but this is what code review is for.
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by peterashford 1y ago
You could choose to just skip the topic?
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by peterashford 1y ago
Holy doublestandards, Batman!
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by peterashford 1y ago
re: your edit - perhaps people just think you're wrong because you're drawing false equivalences? No, no, it's everyone else that is wrong =)
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by peterashford 1y ago
Yeah, it really is. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-why-human-s...
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by peterashford 1y ago
Downvoted for stating an objective fact?
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by peterashford 1y ago
This has to be one of the wrongest opinions I've ever seen on HN. It's mind-bendingly wrong. Java would, IMO, be the easiest programming language in the world to debug. The debugging tools are mature, consistent and extensive.
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by peterashford 1y ago
wut? Java has always had getters and setters

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