Funnily enough, the author doesn't actually describe any tangible benefits. It's all just (in my reading, semi-sarcastic) platonics:
- peace
- simplicity
- the flourishing of humanity
... so instead of "vague and fearful", the author comes on with a "vague and cheerful". Yay? The whole shtick about saving bandwidth, lessening complications, and reducing programmer vexations are only ever implied by the author, and were explicitly considered by the person you were replying to:
> You save a handful of bits at the expense of a lot of potential bugs.
... they just happened to be not super convinced.
Is this the kind of HackerNews comment I'm supposed to feel impressed by? That demonstrates this forum being so much better than others?
Funnily enough, the author doesn't actually describe any tangible benefits. It's all just (in my reading, semi-sarcastic) platonics:
- peace
- simplicity
- the flourishing of humanity
... so instead of "vague and fearful", the author comes on with a "vague and cheerful". Yay? The whole shtick about saving bandwidth, lessening complications, and reducing programmer vexations are only ever implied by the author, and were explicitly considered by the person you were replying to:
> You save a handful of bits at the expense of a lot of potential bugs.
... they just happened to be not super convinced.
Is this the kind of HackerNews comment I'm supposed to feel impressed by? That demonstrates this forum being so much better than others?