Hacker News: Constellarise

New comment by Constellarise in "Social Cooling (2017)"

Constellarise — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:13:04 +0000

Regardless of the content I really don't like this website. I don't appreciate having to scroll so much and PgUp/PgDown don't move between the blocks smoothly.

New comment by Constellarise in "Social Cooling (2017)"

Constellarise — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:10:42 +0000

The US was largely founded on white supremacy and it has been part of the state institutions for two hundred years. It didn't disappear at the end of the civil war, or in the 1960s, or in 2008.

New comment by Constellarise in "CDC declares a federal moratorium on evictions [pdf]"

Constellarise — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:30:31 +0000

> if they want to prevent evictions they need to pay the landlords what they’re owed. Reparations.

Why should the government back up somebody's risky investment?

New comment by Constellarise in "Wikipedia is getting a new look"

Constellarise — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 19:37:30 +0000

Cool, instead of having Wikipedia zoomed in to 150% I have to have this one zoomed at 170%.

New comment by Constellarise in "The Era of Visual Studio Code"

Constellarise — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:22:51 +0000

IntelliJ Ultimate with the plugins does this but it's not quite as smooth as the individual IDEs.

New comment by Constellarise in "A Picture of Java in 2020"

Constellarise — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:17:12 +0000

> Go's mediocrity is a feature

Removing complexity from the language just moves it onto the developer and end-user code, it doesn't eliminate it. Go's mediocrity is a ticking timebomb.

New comment by Constellarise in "A Picture of Java in 2020"

Constellarise — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:14:12 +0000

Language server protocols are just re-inventing IDEs, but instead of using shared memory and interacting with the compiler directly you have to use an inefficient JSON pipeline.

New comment by Constellarise in "A Picture of Java in 2020"

Constellarise — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:11:54 +0000

Every sufficiently complicated text editor and CI setup re-invents half of a good IDE, but worse.

New comment by Constellarise in "A Picture of Java in 2020"

Constellarise — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:01:39 +0000

A lot of problems with modern programming can be traced to the "pipe compiler" like model, where your development environment is nothing more than a file editor with a shortcut to run the compiler. It doesn't understand the code, and it can't really help you, and the compiler only really outputs errors.

New comment by Constellarise in "A Picture of Java in 2020"

Constellarise — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:59:58 +0000

The software world is driven by hype, not by objective quality. See Go, Git (vs Mercurial), every project put out then subsequently abandoned by $PUPPYKILLER_CO after being depended on.