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New comment by saltsucker in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

saltsucker — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:56:36 +0000

Ya i think so. Because i resonate a lot with this comment. I workout and such, but i absolutely love this shit.

New comment by saltsucker in "DRY is an over-rated programming principle?"

saltsucker — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:38:24 +0000

I am a CS graduate working at a top HW company and you could not have stated it more perfectly. The code I have to work with given to me written by HW engineers is pretty brutal. Talking 1k+ lines of code with 5+ nested conditions on the reg. Ofc, no unit tests. Blows my mind.

New comment by saltsucker in "DRY is an over-rated programming principle?"

saltsucker — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:30:39 +0000

I'm not sure I follow... Can you provide an example? (junior dev here)

If I understand some of it correctly, I was contemplating this when I started writing functions for "single functional concepts" like, "check for X; return true or false", then called each of those functions sequentially in a single "run" function. Is that what you mean?

I found that approach much easier to test the functions and catch bugs, but your comment seems to go against that.

New comment by saltsucker in "Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)"

saltsucker — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:01:57 +0000

I wish the app moguls would just give us a "Turn off Personalization" option and let me explore freely. I turn off all history tracking on YouTube, but it doesn't matter. Whether it's on or off, you can't explore a topic deeply. You have 1-2 videos on the subject, then you have completely random unrelated click-bait garbage.

Even music apps are disappointing. Sometimes they do well, but most of the time it seems not. I play a radio station for Mat Corby, which is a pretty chill downtempo vibe, and the app throws in stuff from my library that has no relation--like Kanye West's Jesus Walks. Literally did that multiple times. Those vibes could not be more different.

Maybe cataloging music is a difficult problem, but there was a time (maybe 2010?) when YouTube would efficiently suggest music that had a vibe to what I was listening to, and it helped me find many artists I listed to now.

Edit: And a time when Apple's Genius was not a bad house party DJ