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0 pointslobsterthief2y ago0 comments

To be fair, when you do that you would approach coding the application differently, which adds to development time. Also, it can change the whole mentality of developing it. Probably why more people don’t do that, though I agree it would be nice.

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quickthrower22y ago

You can ossify it (ha!) after you have done all the work and it is mostly complete.

    git remote add origin …
    git push

fuzztester2y ago

Time to coin a new word - enossification - like enshittification - which I came across here recently, but without the negative connotation of the latter.

bberenberg2y ago

Can you elaborate on what you would need to do different in terms of dev? The only thing I would do differently in this scenario would be to ensure no secrets or anything gets into the code which is a minor lift but also probably for the best.

rthomas62y ago

In python I do horrible things like the following when nobody else is going to see it:

  [[[foo(x) for x in y] for y in bar_vec if baz(y)] for bar_vec in bar_mat if bar_vec != []]

Cyphase2y ago

Side note, you don't need `if bar_vec != []`. Trying to loop over an empty iterable (e.g. a list) just doesn't loop, since there's nothing there.

Also, another way to write this (which results in a flattened list) is:

  [foo(x) for bar_vec in bar_mat for y in bar_vec if baz(y) for x in y]

__MatrixMan__2y ago

I have my secret perversions as well, so I've got no judgement for you, but I do have to wonder how our editing styles differ if you find that easier to navigate than the equivalent nested for loop.

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Arelius2y ago

I dunno, that seems to be just shame instilled by the toxicity of certain programmer culture.

I mean, it's not the clearest thing to read but labeling it horrible seems to be a judgement call that's unwarranted. And as software developers, we should create an environment that's less hostile to people who write things in ways we wouldn't.

And honestly, that set of list comprehensions has a bit of a lispy functional vibe, which could quite frankly be applauded in certain contexts.

arolihas2y ago

Maybe I'm telling on myself but this doesn't seem that bad at all.

nicbou2y ago

This is fine. I make all of my stuff open source, but I'll be honest with people about being the only user that matters to my development work.

eternityforest2y ago

I assume the issue is you self-censor more and have to do things exactly by the book.

I've never been particularly interested in "software for one person" but I've shared lots of working but not great code(years old from before type annotations that hasn't been touched much since, written a hurry, etc), and faced some embarrassment.

If I was actually attached to specific details of the style, like "Yeah it crashes on some JSON input, but I don't care, it's only meant to handle stuff from this other thing I made" I might not really like sharing it as much.

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