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by communtator 3y ago
Tell me about it. Lots of people do it, but there’s something about programming that brings the alpha nerds that think contrariness is by itself interesting or impressive. So boring to talk to these people — it’s impossible to build common
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by communtator 3y ago
Yup. Mostly the US operates (both privately and in government) on an expectation of good behavior, and mostly it works. I believe this is referred to as a “high trust” society?
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by communtator 3y ago
Yeah exactly the question. I doubt there’s an objective answer, more a subjective decision society makes about what is “right”. Personally I’m fine with saying “I give you directions but it’s on you to execute them safely”. And incurring no
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by communtator 3y ago
If the facts as presented are indeed true, this suit seems to hinge on the question of whether entities publishing information intended for use have any liability at all? Like if you say “here’s information you can use for X” and then someo
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by communtator 3y ago
Indeed I agree that it can be difficult or impossible to squeeze all the important information about a function into its signature! And why bother playing golf when that’s literally what the doc string is for? (Obviously you should endeavo
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by communtator 3y ago
If you consistently break functions down into tiny “functionettes” the names of the functions can as easily lie to you. You start with `buildURL` but it gets complicated, you break part out into validating the URL, now it should be `build