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I will not be polite and call it something else because it is truly sheer stupidity
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> Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect.
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/782511/case-preserving-substitute-in-vim Nobody in this thread understands vim. They think vim is about fancy things…
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These days I run engineering at Lido and noticed something really strange. We’re working on a spreadsheet OS in the browser. It’s all JavaScript…
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Autofixers in precommit are stupid because they break a fundamental rule of version control: “What you get out of it must be what you put into it” (as…
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I had to teach someone about debugging today, thought I’d share my thoughts here too. What is debugging? First and foremost, debugging is fixing your…
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Don’t do: text = text.split(delimiter) Instead do: const a = text.split(delimiter) That way at the end of the program you can add console.log({a, text…
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You’re supposed to fix That Bug. That’s it. But the code is so ugly. Oh my gosh no wonder they wrote a bug here. I should tidy up. I’ll fix the “broken…
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I got a lot of flack on my last post for suggesting piping to ls a la: ls | grep file Why? Because...
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Just Use Sed
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If you have a list, say of imports, where there is no semantic meaning in the ordering, alphabetize it. Alphabetizing makes it easier to find…
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There’s no reason to leave code commented when checking it in, just delete it. It’s one of the most common pieces of feedback I give while reviewing…
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