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Either the package does or the developers do. And only one of them has compilation checks.

And what does DOS attacker want you to do? Not crashing the whole service to deny others of the service?

When a process is used to serve multiple requests, I don't think you need to let the whole process terminate just because there is a bug dealing with a single request. Just because…

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I'm lost on how should I integrate all these "languages" of Racket into a single application. Like, I can see there are `typed/racket`, `racket/gui` and `scribble/base` languages. …

The game doesn't have to be started from scratch. For example, get him to write game on top of Roblox. Or any other game that allow simple mod. If you want to get more hands on, th…

It's not completely about handling unplanned failure, but handling alternative path when the condition for one path is not met. For example, when you perform `withdrawMoney()` it c…

> If my code works out of the box in an unmodified browser, then it is Vanilla JS. If I have to load a framework for it to work, then it isn't, period. Minor nitpick, third party l…

What is this article's obsession with things being "processed" food? Is "processed" the new "chemical"? It's like the article trying to keep repeating the words "processed", "ultra…

Which is fine if your company and teams use React a lot. Why introduce inconsistency in everyone's workflow just because this specific page is a simple contact form? The fact that …

Why not? At that size, it takes less than your client can blink to load it.

Why is it relevant? The point is you are not the one needing to remember. One day React could change from using Virtual Dom to the Svelte way and most user of library wouldn't noti…

I think OP was just saying that even if the article were true, it didn't mean that someone who claim to be one of those people actually were.

And that's a problem because?

> But our low-level motor actions and perceptions, coordinated by the brain, require a lot of precise computation. But we don't actually do that precise computation though. try rep…

> (1) I have no leaks and (2) I don't know how to create them -- These don't really square with each other. If he runs his service for a long time and the memory usage doesn't keep…

I don't think anyone is argue for one instead of the other. Why not a little bit of both? Can we not think about system and data driven improvement while also at the same time apol…

While I agree with not "blaming" people for the mistake as if it's their fault as a person. I disagree with all of his reasoning and the action he choose not to do in this case. I …

> Unless you've invented a mind-reading device I'm pretty sure you're talking out of your ass. You may feel that. But you can't know what other smokers feel, either.

You can use HTTP client to contact any HTTP compatible service. You can only use Kafka client to connect to Kafka. That sounds like a tautology but it's practical. There is way hig…

That reminds me of the villian robot in I, Robot movie. They don't want to harm human, they just want to keep them in the house, so that there is less crime, and less people die. I…

Honestly I don't care that much about such case. The system is not there to babysit you. In other transportation system if you get on the wrong car/bus, it's your problem. So you s…

Why are people assuming that they don't use feature detection just because they have a warning based on UA-sniffing? Saying that an unknown browser is "unsupported browser" is not …

Way to kill businesses that relying on subcontracting and surviving on small margin.

> But more honest language ("What does this line mean?") would erase the veneer of objectivity; hermeneutical questions do not have "right" answers "When you say it honestly, it lo…