iamsomewalrus

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I use Go as my preferred language and I think the author is mostly right.

There’s no way for me to know or even check what are the possible errors this function can return? Sure, sometimes a comment in the library might be illuminating, but sometimes not.

I agree that errors as values that I can handle at the call site rarely feel useful.

Some of the Is, As ergonomics have improved, but damn if coding agents don’t love to just fmt.error any code it writes. Thus hiding the useful information about the error in a string.

genuinely curious, can you steel man stored procedures? views make intuitive sense to me, but stored procedures, much like meta-programming, needs to be sparingly used IMO.

At my new company, the use of stored procedures unchecked has really hurt part of the companies ability to build new features so I'm surprised to see what seems like sound advice, "don't use stored procedures", called out as a cargo cult.

off the original topic, but on topic for this -

Yes! Gibson recognized they were getting cut out of the vintage market and started making not only the reissues (RIs), but also the limited edition copy-of-famous-person's-guitar. What gets me is that Reissues these days are priced so close to vintage instruments. It's so hard to justify the purchase.

ADHD-haver here. I do the same thing but with music. I created a playlist of albums I've heard hundreds of times. The songs are in album order and when I play the list I play from the start of an album somewhere in that list.

It keeps that part of my brain occupied, but not focus, while I work on the task at hand.

^ I can vouch for this. Worked at Goodreads from about 2013 to 2017 ish. I’m sure my name haunts git blame now.

Oh man, thousands of up votes for a Led Zeppelin reference. This mirrors my experience as a musician. Learning to play gave me the confidence to go into different scenarios and recognize that I had to tolerate being bad first and then I would get it. It's a journey. It's a sacrifice. Strangely, it never felt like a sacrifice at the time.

This is my experience as a line manager but also a manager of managers.

Hire for fire feels like an urban myth. We do a lot of work to find you, interview you, hire you, and train you. Managing someone out is also a lot of work.

That being said a company as big as Amazon will always have edge cases.

i think this is too pessimistic. via FBA they've also enabled thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of small businesses and a cottage industry of others that have formed around them.

Not sure what the J was for. Internally it’s been IHM since I joined. “Inventory Health Management” is a backronym. I won’t spill the - albeit boring - beans on where IHM actually comes from.

Flippantly, because hardware is cool!

Plugins - software for audio programs - are available but audio engineers are famously persnickety.

I don't have perfect pitch so it's not that I hear a note and see the color it's more like when I think of a note, chord, or mode I see a color in my minds eye. When I'm playing I am aware at a high level the notes I'm playing and their colors.

Key of D is typically black for me. For dorian F-natural is a soft shade of red. The B natural is purple.

F major is red. E-minor is a desert sand color.