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New comment by anothergoogler in "Removing JavaScript's 'this' keyword makes it a better language"

anothergoogler — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:34:48 +0000

Yes, I know. That doesn't make an assertion about the "pitfalls" of `self` less muddy. It's literally a variable. It's a code smell too, but that's another conversation. Are we calling out variables in JS now? Maybe we should just hold ourselves to bootcamp standards, copy and paste StackOverflow or something like that. Programming is hard, etc.

New comment by anothergoogler in "Removing JavaScript's 'this' keyword makes it a better language"

anothergoogler — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:00:33 +0000

Good luck doing OOP in JS without `this` with minimal contortions. And to be clear, there is no `self` in JS.

New comment by anothergoogler in "What America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic"

anothergoogler — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 19:34:15 +0000

Not with such confidence to say things like "we are in the early days of decay."

New comment by anothergoogler in "What America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic"

anothergoogler — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 19:09:14 +0000

What's it like being able to see into the future?

New comment by anothergoogler in "[dead]"

anothergoogler — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:42:33 +0000

You sincerely believe that tax revenue would be lost to waste and graft with no benefit to the poor? Higher taxes sting me as much as the next USAer, but I think you're being obtuse.

New comment by anothergoogler in "If San Francisco Is So Great, Why Is Everyone I Love Leaving?"

anothergoogler — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 03:55:14 +0000

If you're commuting in a Lyft/Uber, you're part of the problem. That aside, for better or worse, most of us city-dwellers are numbed to shocking! displays of hard drug use.

New comment by anothergoogler in "Ruby 2.6"

anothergoogler — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 21:28:44 +0000

I'm talking about the flat namespace.

New comment by anothergoogler in "Ruby 2.6"

anothergoogler — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 18:13:31 +0000

Clojure's stdlib is unintuitive, and `into` is the poster child.

It's easy to find what's available in Ruby: https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.3/Enumerable.html

Good luck with Clojure: https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html

New comment by anothergoogler in "Why American cities are weirdly shaped"

anothergoogler — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 16:50:51 +0000

Your kids might learn to spell an un-American name like Kwame if you raised them around those scary poor people.

New comment by anothergoogler in "Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries"

anothergoogler — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:25:34 +0000

The State Department is a Slack user so there's that. https://apps.gov/products/Slack/

New comment by anothergoogler in "The Case Against Marzipan"

anothergoogler — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:15:52 +0000

As an antimarzipanner I was hoping to learn that its production harms the oceans or something along those lines.

New comment by anothergoogler in "Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%"

anothergoogler — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 17:20:06 +0000

As user I dislike AMP because it adds a JavaScript requirement to read articles that don't have any JavaScript. There, I said it.

New comment by anothergoogler in "Don't use the greater-than sign in programming (2016)"

anothergoogler — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 16:06:21 +0000

Eventually, cognitive decline will win the day and I will be confused by simple use of conditional operators. Until then, I'm with you pal.

New comment by anothergoogler in "Terminals Are Sexy"

anothergoogler — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 22:16:47 +0000

Yea but it's written in JavaScript.

New comment by anothergoogler in "Terminals Are Sexy"

anothergoogler — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 22:10:56 +0000

Out of curiosity, for how long have you been using Linux as a daily driver?

New comment by anothergoogler in "Terminals Are Sexy"

anothergoogler — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 22:02:16 +0000

youtube-dl is on PyPI https://pypi.org/project/youtube_dl/

New comment by anothergoogler in "Oracle Will Charge for Java Starting in 2019"

anothergoogler — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 19:20:10 +0000

Six month old blogspam, but all it takes is a baiting title to hit the front page here. Hurr durr Oracle, hurr durr Java!

New comment by anothergoogler in "Lawyer: ‘It’s a Free for All’ for Criminals on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)"

anothergoogler — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:18:29 +0000

I don't want somebody shooting for any reason on the BART.

New comment by anothergoogler in "The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software"

anothergoogler — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 15:13:17 +0000

> Instead of a well-designed data store, OOP projects tend to look like a huge spaghetti graph of objects pointing at each other and methods taking long argument lists.

Uh, what? FP projects are the ones with crazy argument lists, has OP even heard of the Law of Demeter? Does FP magically prohibit a huge spaghetti graph of functions and ad-hoc types pointing at each other?

> The main point is: just because my software operates in a domain with concepts of eg. Customers and Orders, doesn't mean there is any Customer class, with methods associated with it.

What an observation, it's all a bucket of bits so why name anything? Rub your hands together, mutter an incantation and voila, software without all that obnoxious structure!

New comment by anothergoogler in "[dead]"

anothergoogler — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 01:14:20 +0000

This could be us!

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/9zvoe2/the_...