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> In all fairness, maybe that's why they're adding this: the workplace culture and irresponsibility of Amazon are the main things I hear criticized a lot, so this could be them trying to actually address that. They announced th
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> Svelte probably hasn’t taken over because the real world isn’t synthetic benchmarks and most apps have more significant concerns than how many times a component can update per second And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how we ended up w
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A government isn't picking who wins or loses if it builds a road or a sewer line. It is in fact providing infrastructure that benefits and improves the lives of all citizens. Why do you place greater importance on how a hypothetical bu
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> The white boats and yachts that you see are typically glass-fiber-reinforced epoxy, and they seem to be holding up just fine. They really don't hold up at all. FRP degrades rapidly when exposed to UV light, and boats not only are
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I don't feel like the downvotes are justified. Composite structures using FRP is hardly new or novel. A quick search on Google Scholar showed up this article on FRP footbridges, which mentions that the first FRP footbridge in the Nethe
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> I felt sad for him - he'd poured his heart into it for more than 10 years (he said) and had no idea of how to turn it into anything other than a hobby project. There is nothing wrong with that. It's fun to do things just for
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> These use cases can need TBs of ram. These use cases can need TBs of RAM, but they don't get it in a single node but as a distributed system with tens of GB of RAM per node.
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> I don't know in which world you live but in mine people still mostly buy 4, sometimes 8GB of ram laptops Not only that, but those terabytes are actually distributed systems running at most a few hundreds of megabytes of ram in eac
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> He's right though. He really isn't, and the blatant attempt to poison the well is a clear indicator of the lacking arguments. I repeat: people don't even bother spending a few minutes trying to get a pure FP hello world
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> That's not what we see happen in life. Just look at how dearly we hold on to coal plants. What a non-sequitur. Adopting a programming paradigm in the code that we write on a daily basis has rigorously zero to do with the infrastru
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> Don't we take things a bit too serious these days? I agree that this self righteous fake outrage targeted at those who point out bullying and abuse gets a bit too tiring, and adds nothing to the discussion. This is a very good exa
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The wide adoption of Flask as Python's backend development framework of choice makes it quite clear that software developers have a hard time picking up April fool's jokes.
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Calling them complementary is quite the stretch. You've only talked about YAGNI twice, with one time throwing a "opinionated" label without any reason. I mean, let's be honest here: "you ain't gonna need it&quo
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> That's what it was supposed to be for, 20 years ago when it was introduced to the wider world. That's what YAGNI still is and always was. It never changed. At all. Another thing that never changed are those who criticize YAGN
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> Most of the current generation of programmers have been mentally mutilated by Object Orientation in the C++/Java/C# style. Why do you feel the need to denigrate people who are experienced in imperative and/or object-orie
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> I think that some of the quotes are pretty toxic, regardless of who they are by. They are indeed, aren't they? I mean, they straight up sound like bullying those who happen to not think alike or share the same opinion. Those who a
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> YAGNI isn’t a rule, it’s a dismissal. A dodge. A cop-out. No, not really. YAGNI is about making it clear that you do not need to waste time putting together abstractions that aren't required to implement anything, and are nothing
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> YAGNI is about individual decisions. This is about mindset. Is there any difference at all?
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Is "opinion-driven design" an attempt to reinvent YAGNI and to try to pass it off the concept as a brand new discovery? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
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> Yeah I learned that the hard way when I found out that std::vector apparently feels free to move your objects around in memory for you, no matter if you point to them from somewhere else. It's not as much as "feeling free&quo
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> I think there's a problem here. There is a problem indeed, which is OP's failure to implement exception-safe code. If someone opts to use exceptions, they have the responsibility of writing their code in a way that complies w
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> And then every object has one more state. No, not really. Either the allocation followed the happy path, or one of the expected failure modes kicked in. And the supposed footgun example boiled down to failing to handle one of the failu
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I really doubt this sort of hypothetical source of memory leaks was either significant or its root cause could be pinned to this. As this hypothetical scenario depends on an exception being thrown, your code would need to throw exceptions r
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> Finland did very well in the Winter War, but it did not "beat the crap out of Russia" because that would be assuming that they have won. Well, Finland did unequivocally won it's war against Russia, didn't it? I mean
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> Russia has the right to defend its national security within its means. Please explain how do you associate the natural outcome of free and democratic elections in the Ukraine with a "national security " threat to Russia that&
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> America on the other hand keeps purporting this outdated myth of scary Russia despite Russia barely even being a threat anymore so that it can keep members of NATO as effectively vassal states. In light of your comment, how do you desc
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> With the fed itself acknowledging it's losing the battle to inflation--4.2% over the last year--then I'd say by your definition, that, alone, renders _dollars_ unsuited as money. It makes absolutely no sense to claim that a
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> They might also want to save their hard-earned money without getting the fruit of their work stolen by inflation. "stolen by inflation" is a ridiculous take. Society benefits greatly from inflation as it's an incentive t
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> Dogecoin adds a fixed number of coins per year. At this point that fixed number is less inflationary than the USD by a large margin. That, alone, renders dogecoin unsuited as money. Money is, by definition, expected to be stable, not
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> But a purpose as desired by one entity is not necessarily a good purpose for another. Inflation is a very basic and proved tool to not only stabilize the value of a currency (you know, what a currency is supposed to be) but also to pro

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