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+++ I cannot stress this enough.

Programmers tend to get over obsessive about DRY code because it seems like it should be easier to maintain fewer functions and writing less code should be easier right? But it tends to ignore the actual subtle differences between the different consumers of that abstraction, and that leads to massively branching functions that couple unrelated parts of the codebase together. These then become impossible to read and change without worrying about breaking something else.

When I was at Thoughtworks (Martin Fowler’s current company), we were also taught the rule of three for refactoring, and were taught to always optimize your code for readability and maintainability first and foremost. Refactoring and improving easy to read/maintain code is always relatively trivial, by nature of it being clear, concise and decoupled, and that can be done once you have a reason to do so (i.e. performance issue etc), so there’s no point over optimizing for anything else up front.

This talk from Dan Abramov (one of the lead devs of React) does a really really good job explaining some of these issues and is entirely worth the full watch/listen (do it on company time, it’s professional development):

https://www.deconstructconf.com/2019/dan-abramov-the-wet-codebasets

Huh, TIL, I didn’t realize they kept the gateway servers in Python.

I literally do that professionally, and I’m telling you that brackets are inarguably better.

You are used to whitespace; I have literally spent months refactoring and upgrading a react frontend and a python backend and am telling you that brackets are a single character and far more predictable, and then your IDE / Linter / Formatter can reliably use them to fill in the perfect indentation and whitespace.

My first professional language was Python, but I have since tried a half dozen others and would never choose to go back to a whitespace based language unless there was a good reason.

No, it’s not. It was rewritten in Facebook’s version of PHP when they bought them.

Or you know, TypeScript, Go, C#, Java, Swift, etc. etc.

Python isn’t great at anything except for having a lot of data science libraries already written for it.

Lazy is an overly harsh and judgemental way to put it (virtually all programmers start with some high level simplified language), but the sentiment arises because it’s syntax is designed to be easy for people writing code, but at the cost of people maintaining code.

The whitespace delimiters, the lack of type system, the lack of semi-colons … They’re all things that people who haven’t programmed before think make programming easier. In reality they all make in the wild production programs waaay harder to maintain.

There’s a reason that JavaScript has been surpassed by TypeScript for professional developers, and it did so remarkably quickly. All that ‘extra’ information that seems pointless for a new dev to express, in reality constrains your program, makes it more readable and understandable, reduces the amount of tests you have to write, and makes it easier for someone else to come in and make a change to it and be confident they haven’t broken anything.

Python is popular because it’s whitespace based syntax make noobs think it’s easy to read. This and it’s pre-installation on Linux made it popular amongst academics who embraced it for data analysis. This lead to a lot of data scientists embracing it and writing libraries for it which created a virtuous cycle in that arena.

And it’s a damn shame because Python, and it’s whitespace nonsense and lack of type system, is a horribly impractical language for building anything at scale.

Apple is such a piece of shit company.

Learn how to compete without behaving anti competitively or quit your fucking jobs. It’s not complicated.

Why?

1. Lack of Feature Parity

2. Stickiness of library transfer

3. Stickiness of social network effects

4. It’s still better ethically than Apple Music or YouTube Music, which behave anti-competitively

1: I’ve tried out Quobuz, it’s pretty good, but it does not have the Jam / Group Session feature which me and my friends use constantly while gaming remotely. It also does not have an Xbox app which I use while playing games. I find Spotify’s recommendations somewhat underwhelming, but Quobuz has a noticeably worse recommendation engine, at least for my genres and tastes. Those are the features that lack parity that matter to me, but for some others, it’s things like amplifiers having built-in Spotify, or there being a Roku or Playstation app or something.

2: Quobuz uses a third party service to automatically transfer your library, which worked pretty well, but did require jumping through a bunch of hoops and subscribing to a trial subscription that I then had to cancel. It also did not find matches for some songs. Could I make it work if I had enough reason to switch? Yeah, probably, but the lack of feature parity (/roadmap that includes them) is enough to dissuade me from really trying.

3: In addition to friends on Spotify all using Jams, there’s also an inherent niceness to just being able to text people Spotify links, especially since there’s no cross platform linking service that would otherwise make sharing music easy.

4: Supporting Spotify may not be great, but its still better than supporting trillion dollar anti-competitive corporations like Apple and Google.

I assume this suggestion will get me torched for reasons I don’t understand, but why not a multi-paradigm language like JavaScript/Typescript, or C#?

I misread the comment hierarchy, I thought this was a part of a different chain.

No one should be able to do it is the right reaction, but ‘Nintendo deserves no blame or shame for choosing to do it’ is the wrong reaction. Nintendo could have used all the money it spends on IP lawyers to instead lobby the government to change the patent system, but they chose not to.

Classic American response: “companies aren’t responsible for the shitty choices they make, they can make as many shitty choices that harm people for profit as possible at all times and it’s just business”.

Once again, showing why Nintendo is a POS company.

Compete by making better games and stories, not by patenting basic role playing game mechanics and suing your competition.

Honestly, pretty motivating if you think about it.

I mean, whenever you’re sitting there at work, thinking that your job is stupid and pointless, just remember that there are people out there trying to use the American court system to get fair and sensible rulings. Your job will never be remotely as pointless as theirs.

This writer’s pearl clutching is pretty intolerable.

No, your inane tweeting was never going to do something during his first term, and quite frankly you were dumb for thinking that millions of people who actively avoid following you would be swayed by your clever quips.

But it is a fundamentally different story if you actually do something and run for office. If you get popular enough, the other side can’t ignore you.

When you’re that salty, all the time, it blinds you to any situations that aren’t salt filled.

Louis sucks ass as a YouTuber. He likes to hear himself rant. That’s literally his only quality.

No, Krafton’s explanation was clearer and plainer spoken.

Krafton may be lying or misrepresenting the situation, but their explanation is both simple and believable, if not necessarily the truth.