shallowthought

God my life would be so much easier if I could just choose which half of America the jury pool came from.

I have to wonder: Have we gone too far? Is TypeScript becoming more tedious than helpful? Has React lost its way in its blind zeal for pure functions?

...no, no, definitely not. Must've gone crazy for a second there.

Of course, it absolutely HAS to be a nation-state. There's just no way anybody not being paid millions of dollars could possibly break their ironclad blah blah whatever you get it

That's irrelevant to what Linus is saying. He's not saying "this is good code, but only with the caveat that it's written in C and run in the Linux Kernel". He's saying that changing it to make it far more difficult to read and modify, but cleverer, has made it better code in general.

DVORAK users might have something to say about that, you insensitive clod!

Is spelling "zero" as "xero" a pun I don't get?

My concern is that people might get too complacent with libraries that claim to make CSS local, and people might get lazy and all start using the exact same "generate a unique id" library, which will then start generating a ton of the same id across multiple users of that library.

Because it's more than six months old, and therefore totally obsolete.

An ineffable truth of webdev is that it is constantly disrupted by morons who claim to have an improvement, but really just want as many people as possible to use something THEY built.

That's a pretty big freakin thing to leave out, though. Code that depends on its context is, some would say, bad.

Good to know Paul Graham is still writing poorly thought-out articles. That guy's Lisp code must be a nightmare.

Here's my general thought, in a year we will all be singing the praises of something else, and my fellow webdevs will continue to mistake "different" for "better".