Programmer Humor @programming.dev Irelephant @lemm.ee 6d ago

looks good to me

Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml Irelephant @lemm.ee 6d ago

looks good to me

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if (error) { continue; }
- try { operation(); } catch { // nice weather, eh? }
  
  Starting with Java 21 (I think), they've introduced ignored variables, so you can now actually do this:
  
  try { operation(); } catch (Exception _) { // nice weather, eh? }
  
  Edit: forgot that this is about JS lel
  
  ☑️ PR Approved
  
  with contextlib.suppress(BaseException): do_thing()
  
  Thanks. I hate it.
- On Error Resume Next
  
  Visual Basic is a beautiful language
  
  On error goto 0
  
  Was always syntacticly confusing for me.
  
  I legitimately use this line in one of my scripts because range.find returns an error of the value is not found. The use case is taking a 2d matrix saved as an array, with data collected from multiple excel tabs and rearranging it for a CSV upload into Salesforce. The initial array contains values that the rest of the data does not have, so when I search for a non existent value, I can skip the error.
  
  Of course vba COULD just implement try/catch statements and that'd be so much cleaner, but alas.
If it wanted to get my attention it should have been an error
I, too, place 2> /dev/null after every line
- Yes, but 2>&1 > /dev/null is the real hero.
  
  No, > /dev/null 2>&1 is. If try your example but with file instead null, stderr content not in file.
  
  Because x>y not redirect x to y, but duplicate y and set x to y-duplicate. See bash manpage REDIRECTION (your example in that section for what not work).
  
  As i understand, your example set 2 to what 1 is, then set 1 to null. Now 2 not null, but what 1 before.
Eh it's Javascript. Anything goes
- https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs/blob/master/README.md
  
  this is fucking gold
- Yeah, array.length is mutable in javascript. I'm surprised it caught on.
- If i can just suppress the warnings which need to be fixed till morning in my buggy code, anything goes!
If I can't see it, is it really there?
Warnings? We’ll come back and address those later. Maybe once we’re feature complete. Or maybe shortly after that.
- Don't worry. We'll totally fix all of them soon. Promise. Hand to God. They definitely will not be here five years from now.
If it works, it works
- I would add: until it doesn't.
- This is why:
  
  "It ain't stupid if it works."
  
  is fundamentally incorrect.
- Sometimes it’s better to hope while closing eyes
Actually fixing warnings is for noobs
- if they mattered they'd be errors I'm sure
  
  That's when you do CTRL+C, CTRL+V
Meanwhile in another universe one of my biggest win was to introduce this line in our PR validation pipeline.

eslint . --max-warnings 0
- Works so well, and soothes the warning annoyance brain, and keeps warnings from eventually becoming errors.
  
  In a codebase with a lot of warnings is even better for me to add a disable comments for all the existing warning and then not allow any new one in.
  
  And then each time a part of the code needs to be touched the existing warning there should be solved too.
edit: works better when used together with StackOverflow.comment.enabled = false;
-ErrorActionPreference SilentlyContinue
- --yolo
I don't get it. This isn't funny. I wouldn't approve it in merge request. Most wouldn't.
- Trying to hide problems and incompetence is the joke. A lot of people don't want problems solved, they just don't want to see them, and will take the easy route. If you just want that, this is the easy route.
  
  Incompetent? Absolutely, that's the joke.

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