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Good things happen to all people, and also the opposite.
Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?
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#32Stuffing data into dictionaries and passing it along many functions is much easier than writing a class to deal with the same.
Re: Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?
#33Stuffing data into dictionaries and passing it along many functions is much easier than writing a class to deal with the same.
hard disagree. Mistyped a name? with classes you get an error on compile time. Dictionaries? only on runtime.
plus, you won't need to remember every field because your editor can autocomplete it for you
Re: Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?
#34Stuffing data into dictionaries and passing it along many functions is much easier than writing a class to deal with the same.
hard disagree. Mistyped a name? with classes you get an error on compile time. Dictionaries? only on runtime. plus, you won't need to remember every field because your editor can autocomplete it for you
There is more than one language out there
Re: Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?
#35Life is fair, you need to consider whether your actions failed because you were trying to improve yourself within a failing system. Change your env not only yourself.
Don't hear what they say, hear what they do.
Health first, including mental.
Those that achieved too much are outliers of those that made crazy plans. A bad strategy for the general population, many thousands have failed so that you get to see the celebrity. A badly biased sample on which to base your life strategy.
Choose boring for the important stuff and people in your life
Set expectations and boundaries for yourself and others
Most death bed wish lists have as a top item "I should have worked less"
You are working to make money, expecting to like is is self entitlement or self delusion
Read the news, read history, read psychology.
Inspire your kids, give them non individualistic principles. Easiest way to achieve success and happiness is in a positive and down to earth group / family.
Nothing is forever, effort is the reverse of entropy
Talk to your parents kid, they are soon leaving.
Re: Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?
#36I thought "prurient" meant special or keen, rather than sexual. I remember talking about my "prurient interests" in animal behavior, religion, indigenous cultures, virology etc.
I am mortified.
Re: Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?
#37Only after breaking my right arm (for the second time) - the humerus bone - did I connect the dots as to why it's called "the funny bone".
I was in my mid-20s :-)
Re: Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?
#38Today I learnt that salt raises the boiling temperature of water. I knew it lowered the freezing point but I never considered it might also change the boiling point.
Interaction between Water and Salt is fascinating: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-put-sal...
Re: Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?
#39I thought "prurient" meant special or keen, rather than sexual. I remember talking about my "prurient interests" in animal behavior, religion, indigenous cultures, virology etc. I am mortified.
Ha, Ha, Ha!
This is the first LOL-worthy comment that i have read on HN.
Re: Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
hard disagree. Mistyped a name? with classes you get an error on compile time. Dictionaries? only on runtime. plus, you won't need to remember every field because your editor can autocomplete it for you
There is more than one language out there
“Type safe dictionary” is just another way of saying “object”