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HN comment orderGreat resource, previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7601506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9692499
After a few years of using and abusing Ruby's meta-programming, I've come to understand it as an anti-pattern, you incur technical debt when you use it and should refactor it away as soon as you know what you're trying to do with it. It's one thing to enshrine it as a part of the language, like C++ templates and the C preprocessor, because that forces you (hopefully!) to think about things like maintainability and concern separation. It's quite another to…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7601506
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 220
- Total comments
- 68
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-11-08 | Fear of Macros | rcfox | 3 | 0 |
| 2014-08-27 | Fear of Macros | lobo_tuerto | 3 | 1 |
| 2015-03-23 | Fear of Macros (macro tutorial) | sea6ear | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-06-10 | Fear of MacrosFirst breakout | ranit | 83 | 56 |
| 2018-07-29 | Fear of MacrosBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 129 | 11 |