alexfoxgill
Re:Against 3x Speed
on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:46AM (#29626913)
+1, i also like Sam Harris's Making Sense which is a little more pompous but still interesting
Re:Cryptocurrencies’ Carbon Footprint Underestimated
on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:04PM (#28764066)
Voluntary tax is charity. The whole point of tax is that it applies to everyone by some set of rules that democracy has arrived at.
Re:Making bracket pair colorization faster
on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:08PM (#28699972)
that probably wouldn't be sufficient to instantly grasp which bracket in a set of five opening brackets corresponded to its closing bracket. humans are not great at visually assessing minor differences in absolute size
Re:Currying in JavaScript
on Sunday September 19, 2021 @06:48AM (#28583285)
It is used heavily in Scala https://alvinalexander.com/scala/how-to-use-partially-applie...
I will never forget the hours I lost debugging an issue where I had not realised that if you declare any variable in scope that coincidentally has the same name as an implicit that you're relying on, the implicit will be shadowed and unable to resolve. Of course, it 'makes sense' when you consider that you would be unable to refer to it by name explicitly... But if you're not using the name, the fact that it can have an impact on visibility is pretty confusing