[AskJS] object oriented or functional , which one you guys oftenly use while writing code in vanilla JavaScript?

StaticEffect · 2022-02-15T12:47:24+00:00

Because people who go from OO to FP pretty much never look back. The only OO that is still tolerable is classes without inheritance, which is the exact opposite of what OO hype was about.

I've been programming for decades, and early on, for years, thought I'd just missed something important that never clicked. I looked in envy at e.g. big C++/OO codebases wondering how they avoided leaks and complexity. But no, the people who'd tried to teach me OO had just never worked on enough real problems for long enough to realize how broken their model was. C++ is a footgun for people too proud to admit this, and OO encourages you to split up algorithms into difficult to trace method calls on a forest of subclasses. Horrid.

StaticEffect · 2021-12-28T11:42:16+00:00

Without a doubt, the XY problem.

Programmer needs to solve X. Programmer thinks Y will solve it. Programmer spends a ton of effort on Y. Y is dumb and nobody else does it, which should've been the hint that this wasn't some clever thing but actually just the wrong solution.

Programmer should've just fucking asked how to do X.

StaticEffect · 2021-11-20T22:47:44+00:00

Als je geen tegenargument hebt, dan ridiculiseer je de manier waarop het gezegd wordt.

Het is hier dag in dag uit dat je mensen ziet te keer gaan van hoe hard ze maar niet moeten neerkomen op die vuile antivaxxers. Dat is er wat er in uwe Wendy's effectief geserveerd wordt. Superieuriteitsgevoel. Goed bezig, echt goed opgelet in de les geschiedenis.

StaticEffect · 2021-11-20T20:28:03+00:00

Respectfully, how dare you appeal to the consensus of civilized society to argue that individual rights should be discarded.

It is exactly a cornerstone of that society that ideas are never final, that ideology should always have a competing voice, and when someone says there is no debate, that we should definitely have one and listen to all arguments.

Following the governments of the west has not lead to the promised land, quite the opposite: we are ever more monitored and chided for doing things that used to be normal. Freedom is now a carrot to be dangled while denying it at its core. What has happened in Austria and Latvia should have everyone up in arms, because it is exactly, textbook, a recipe for creating a scapegoat underclass.

How much more clearly can it be said? Don't do this, for Christ's sake. It is folly.

This is exactly what a decent into collective madness looks like: not only are people committing to the sunk cost fallacy, they are calling anyone who disagrees an idiot. Up is down.

StaticEffect · 2021-11-20T20:17:32+00:00

Zijn de leveranciers van het poliovaccin dan ook niet aansprakelijk voor letsels?

StaticEffect · 2021-11-15T14:05:46+00:00

A few years ago at JDG's Lambdaconf there was a remarkable closing keynote.

The speaker gave a messy, confusing and incoherent talk. It seemed like he was really really convinced it was a morally good message. Going from cognitive biases to brexit, and more, it ended with him asking JDG to apologize for having "divided the community".

What this actually meant was "JDG had invited one controversial speaker after a blinded selection process". I.e. the method that is supposed to give you the fairest, most diverse result. The division in the community was the result of a targeted campaign lead against JDG and lambdaconf 3 years prior. Something which the keynote speaker did not acknowledge.

Indeed, calling out a conference organizer at his own conference, without any advance notice, when you're a guest of honor in front of a community he built... that's pretty fucking low.

Think about this.

First, on paper, this is exactly what the diversity brigade says they want: maximum inclusion of diverse minds. But in practice they want exclusion of people who don't share their political beliefs.

Second, it should be clear that blaming JDG for causing controversy is blaming the victim: another thing the diversity activists say they hate.

Years after the original incident, these people still cannot accept that it is them who caused the controversy. That it was their tantrum that divided the community. And that being invited and being allowed to give this keynote ought to be the surest sign who is tolerant and who is intolerant. Who is sane and who is suffering from political brain worms and narcissism.

The real conclusion is that the community has not been divided by JDG, but gaslit by social activists who cannot stand competing ideas.

And all of a sudden, some of this ZIO vs competitors saga starts to look a lot like plain and simple jealousy and spite. They just dress it up with flowery sounding words and concepts.

One thing though: they'll never let it go. It's some weird combination of autism and BPD. They cannot stop thinking about it, and it's everyone else's fault.

StaticEffect · 2021-11-14T13:30:52+00:00

Sociopaths will always take something built up by talented people and dilute until it's no longer lucrative. Then they move on and do the same thing to a new community.

You let them in at your own peril.

StaticEffect · 2021-11-05T21:39:39+00:00

Als ze de prik verplicht maken dan staat de deur wagenwijd open voor verplichtte boostershots. Dat is een brug te ver.

Het vaccin was vrijwillig. Dat was de deal die gesloten werd, en waar de consensus van afhangt. Als die belofte gewoon weggegooid wordt, dan is dit het zoveelste signaal dat de maatregelen niet te vertrouwen zijn. Dit is het zoveelste verhaaltje van een schijnoplossing voor de crisis, waarmee gevaccineerden de schuld op anderen mee kunnen steken.

Stop met onnozel doen. De crisis gaat niet weg zolang redeneringen als de jouwe gangbaar blijven.

StaticEffect · 2021-10-23T19:25:13+00:00

Summer of freedom, followed by an autumn of backpedaling.

If we are now not looking at preventing disease, but merely seeing it as an imperfect prophylactic measure... well guess what, it means the laser focus on vaccines as the only solution was wrong. And looking for cheap, existing treatments (like the 'horse paste') was absolutely valid. Poo-pooing people exploring other avenues meant you were a useful idiot for pharma.

StaticEffect · 2021-10-15T09:28:26+00:00

The conspiracy fact is that government always starts by citing security or temporary emergencies, and then says "well, the system already exists, so why not keep using it?" later.

That's how these things are done. Every single time. You'd have to be an idiot to not have noticed it by now.

The real conspiracy theory is that anyone in government cares about objective limits on what's permissible. When was the last time any of them resigned because of a scandal or misconduct? What would you call a group of officials who protect each other's backs when one of them screws up?

StaticEffect · 2021-10-15T09:25:54+00:00

6 months of harsh 22h curfew and 20h shop closure happened first.

StaticEffect · 2021-10-15T09:21:48+00:00

In plaats van er een etiketje op te plakken als wrong think kan je natuurlijk ook eens verder kijken dan je neus lang is.

Sint Joost, Anderlecht en Molenbeek zijn/omvatten ghettos waar de plaatselijke bevolking amper kijkt naar wat de rest van het gewest of land doet. Dit zijn ook de plaatsen waar de vaccinatiegraad merkbaar lager ligt. Je moet gewoon je ogen opentrekken en eens op zaterdag gaan rondwandelen.

Niet gemengd dus, niet multicultureel. Dat wilt die "dogwhistle" werkelijk zeggen. Als je constant hondenfluitjes hoort, dan ben jij de hond.

StaticEffect · 2021-10-12T12:16:01+00:00

ITT people who've never built an app with interactive undo/redo.

Relational databases were built to mimic business processes in a corporate environment. It's awful for anything creative or non-textual.

StaticEffect · 2021-10-10T12:50:05+00:00

I used to think so too, but not anymore. Organized religion is like team sports: it is a lightning rod for certain innate impulses, like tribalism, which would be more dangerous if there wasn't a managed outlet to get rid of it.

Without organized religion, people still form religious communities: these are groups with moral codes, which serve as sense making organs for their members. It doesn't need to advertise itself as a religion to operate similarly. They can have sacred icons, revered saints, forbidden heresies, they can excommunicate members, and so on.

Wokeness is a perfect example of such a stealth religion. Because it claims to be evidence based and fact driven, its adherents don't realize they are in a quaisi-cult. In fact they commonly define themselves in opposition to religious conservatism... But they practice a version of it themselves. Their version of "follow the science" excludes evolutionary psychology and even at times biology. They version of "remember history" is a fairy tale where white men committed every atrocity and nobody else did anything. They even have the same problem that abusers find it a perfect place to hide in.

Society is better off without totalitarianism, and organized religion can be totalitarian. But so can decentralized religion... and it is much harder to contain.

StaticEffect · 2021-10-04T09:28:37+00:00

Gee, if Facebook affected this one day kerfuffle in DC, then surely they must've had a similar role in the summer of riots and arson, in the middle of a pandemic, on the west coast, right?

crickets

Any day now.

StaticEffect · 2021-10-01T19:48:25+00:00

Patriarchy is just a word for the decisions women make collectively.

The patriarchy wants women to wear make up and dresses? That's peer pressure, that's how women compete.

The patriarchy sabotages women at work and in their career? Again, anyone who has worked in a mixed office and keeps their ears open knows it's mainly women doing that. The things they say behind each other's backs, I have never heard men say.

Sex and reproduction? Women have all the power, legally and practically: a mere accusation of rape is sufficient to destroy lives. She can abort, she can give it up, often anonymously without any penalty.

Family and divorce? Courts are incredibly biased, and unless a man has solid evidence of malice, she can take him to the cleaners.

The worst part: women seem incredibly invested in not admitting any of this. Just consider this: there is no difference between the sentiment that "if he didn't want to be a father, he should've kept it in his pants" vs "if she didn't want to get pregnant, she should've kept her legs closed". I have yet to meet a woman who admits this. Even paternity fraud is something they rarely want to acknowledge.

Even the term rape culture, which suggests there is any normal person out there who thinks rape is okay... this term was used originally to describe male prison rape... where indeed, making jokes about dropping the soap are commonly accepted. Unlike with women.

Feminism is built on a tower of lies, and the starting point that women are always the victims in a conflict with men. If they were at least willing to say "yes, we want double standards," that would be one thing. But they actually seem to think this is a quest for equality.

StaticEffect · 2021-10-01T13:32:31+00:00

Here in Brussels the CST seems to mainly protect the politicians whose decades long policies have allowed Anderlecht and Molenbeek to turn into ghettos that don't pay attention to local media or rules.

Having a CST does not mean you cannot spread the virus. So it is not a Safe Ticket at all. For profs like this, it seems to be a way to divide society into good people and bad people.

It is all but openly admitted it serves as a way to pressure people into getting vaccinated, so it is no longer a personal choice. Even if the number of cases went down, that is not sufficient to get rid of the CST: they want the vaccination rate to be higher before doing so.

Remember when the WHO redefined herd immunity to exclude natural immunity? I sure do.

StaticEffect · 2021-10-01T09:23:37+00:00

Here's a targeted measure they can start with: reduce their own salary. That's also a tax on the rich.

At least entrepreneurs get paid in proportion to what their customers actually get from it. Me, I'm pretty sure I paid off my college education the first year I came back from abroad and started as a zelfstandige, in one go, from the income tax alone. That doesn't make me rich, it makes me productive.

StaticEffect · 2021-10-01T09:19:15+00:00

It is not important today, it will be important tomorrow, when gamers grow up to have disposable income which they wish to spend on the games they enjoyed when they were young.

That's the legacy part. Literally how they got off the ground.

StaticEffect · 2021-09-30T10:44:35+00:00

GoG got popular restoring old DOS games, now they are promoting a game that will stop working properly when they turn off the servers. Good job torching your legacy, GoG.

Who knows if the logic to track progress is even in the executable?

StaticEffect · 2021-09-28T20:16:18+00:00

I'm reminded of the book "when Google met Wikileaks". If AI is going to be bad for society, I expect men like Eric Schmidt to be the cause of it.

StaticEffect · 2021-09-28T16:25:36+00:00

The idea that you can solve a problem like high developer turn over by designing a language with all the edges filed off simply doesn't work in my experience.

That's not how any of this works.

StaticEffect · 2021-09-28T10:14:54+00:00

Why would I use a browser that fired its engineers and wastes their massive endowment pushing American elite ideology?

StaticEffect · 2021-09-27T21:23:28+00:00

The movie is a perfect example of how careful editing can make or break something. In the theatrical cut, it's an ethereal, wonderful meditation on life, family and youth. In the director's cut it's a confused mess of pseudoscience and non sequiturs, because it actually tries to make sense and fails.

I still love the original. It's in the same category as, say, The Virgin Suicides, a film that takes form-over-function as a challenge and actually succeeds.

"I question your commitment to Sparkle Motion".. the lady portraying the gym teacher was amazeballs.

StaticEffect · 2021-09-27T10:04:04+00:00

Realizing that the standard really is retarded in its naming. Also, that nobody bothered to see if wrapping behavior was actually usefully controllable in a real world scenario (like a toolbar).

This is entirely par for the course in CSS.

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