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nxrabl commented on Birth of Prettier   blog.vjeux.com/2025/javas... · Posted by u/garretruh
CaptainOfCoit · 2 months ago
Sounds similar to my personal history of adopting StandardJS (https://github.com/standard/standard) as soon as it appeared, doing the same at the org I was at the time. Based on memory, seems StandardJS appeared before Prettier in the ecosystem?

It seems weird that StandardJS wasn't mentioned in this article, as surely the author must have known about it before starting Prettier.

Still to this day I just use StandardJS when starting a new project, not even sure what the difference against Prettier is, it's more or less the same as far as I can tell but maybe faster?

nxrabl · 2 months ago
Standard always struck me as kind of scummy - it tries to present itself as something bigger than what it really is, which is a tiny CLI wrapper around one guy’s ESLint config. You have to scroll way down the FAQ section before ESLint even gets mentioned. The author is just squatting on the “standard” namespace and using it to blag his way into relevance. Think how much more good it would do if the sponsors of this project were actually supporting ESLint directly instead of this useless middleware.
nxrabl commented on How to Figure Out What You're Not Good At   blog.martin-haehnel.de/20... · Posted by u/donutshop
choilive · 3 months ago
What if you don't have any talents. (Or at least havn't discovered it yet) I seem to be quite mediocre at everything.
nxrabl · 3 months ago
This is normal, most people are like this. The idea that there’s something out there that you’re just amazing at without even trying very hard is a trap and believing it will destroy your life. You just have to pick something you want to be good at and do it until you are.
nxrabl commented on It's not a hack to satisfy known requirements   charemza.name/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/michalc
1dom · 3 months ago
I came to the comments to try find a similar sentiment. I agree wholeheartedly with the author on everything apart from the bit about OO, where I feel the same as you.

What's the deal with this? I'm not an OO evangelist at all, but I often find myself using objects like you describe: as a mechanism to group related functions and data.

I feel there are people who see OO like a philosophy on how to architect stuff, and from that perspective, the idea of a "purely OO system" is perhaps a little unwieldy.

But from the perspective of OO as a low level tool to help group stuff in programming, as part of some other non-pure-OO system - it works really well and makes a lot of sense for me. I've often done this in environments around people who are outspoken anti-OO who either haven't noticed or haven't complained.

Am I a bad person, are you like me, are we idiots somehow?

nxrabl · 3 months ago
I think the specific trap the author is arguing against is where you try to make your classes model 1-1 some external domain model without tailoring them only to the functionally that your specific application needs. If you’re writing a FooClass, it’s easy to get caught up in giving it everything a Foo would have, even if you won’t actually use it.
nxrabl commented on CocoaPods trunk read-only plan   blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaP... · Posted by u/matharmin
johnisgood · 4 months ago
What I meant is that people who are non-ableist, non-racist, etc. do not have racism et al. popped up in their mind.

Why does everything have to do with those things in people's minds? It is tiring, and I am starting to believe they are the racists.

It never crossed my mind based on the name of a project. It is ridiculous.

nxrabl · 4 months ago
If you’re not familiar with the experience of browsing the internet and then suddenly having deeply-held parts of your identity deemed undeserving of respect, it’s the kind of thing that the mind naturally develops habits to avoid, in much the same way that you might start to walk differently through a city after getting mugged. It is indeed tiring for everyone, but the solution is not to blame people for doing what they feel like they need to do to protect themselves.
nxrabl commented on Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson   twitter.com/nealstephenso... · Posted by u/SLHamlet
bko · 4 months ago
> If Mark Zuckerberg didn't exist, we'd still have Facebook.

Yes, because multi-trillion dollar companies are completely natural and spawn almost at random to whatever nerd happens to be working on a particular problem at any given time

nxrabl · 4 months ago
Note that GP didn’t say Meta, the trillion-dollar company, they said Facebook, the social platform that won its generation of social platforms. One of those platforms was bound to win, just by the interconnected nature of social networks, and I think reasonable people can disagree on whether that success sets you up inevitably to make a trillion dollars or not.
nxrabl commented on Tell HN: Somebody please make a faster task management system    · Posted by u/pinkmuffinere
gashmol · 4 months ago
Patience.
nxrabl · 4 months ago
There are things that are worth being patient about. Jira isn’t one of them.

“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”

nxrabl commented on Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related orgs from one of its funding lists   cnbc.com/2025/08/01/googl... · Posted by u/gslin
cronelius · 5 months ago
racism is bad business. the market deals with it in the following ways: - the competent people who are being discriminated against leave and go to places where they aren’t discriminated - people in protected classes sue for discrimination - companies that don’t discriminate get a reputation as such and attract the best - companies that keep discriminating keep losing talent and getting hit with lawsuits

what else could you possibly need to show that racism is bad business? that racists get what’s coming to them in the long term?

nxrabl · 5 months ago
As the saying goes, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. There are any number of ways a firm can do things that, in isolation, are bad for business, and still do very well overall if they’re protected by other factors (such as, case in point, the money printing machine that is Google ads). I think what the GP is saying is that sitting back and leaving things to the market to work out is essentially resigning the issue not to be resolved in our lifetimes.
nxrabl commented on Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost   update.botghost.com/... · Posted by u/exists
nxrabl · 6 months ago
> A recent security breach on our platform brought BotGhost to Discord’s attention.

The breach in question is documented here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lUiLBBab1RY

I don’t think there’s a text write-up, but tl;dw a combination of missing input sanitization and no-code UI trickery made it possible to leak other users’ bot tokens, and despite patching the exploit pretty quickly on exposure, BotGhost’s developer tried to cover it up and refused to reset potentially affected tokens.

nxrabl commented on How OpenElections uses LLMs   thescoop.org/archives/202... · Posted by u/m-hodges
nxrabl · 6 months ago
Very interesting! Is this the state of the art for accurate OCR of tabular PDFs, or is there other work in the space to compare against?
nxrabl commented on Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act   blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/nixass
cptcobalt · 7 months ago
How kind of Microsoft to feature Arc, an end-of-life browser, in their screenshot for browser defaults.
nxrabl · 7 months ago
Unfortunately there are no web search providers besides Bing for them to show in the search screenshots.

u/nxrabl

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