Automating Dead Code Cleanup
engineering.fb.com
engineering.fb.com
This was the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29UXzfQWOhQ
I'm curious what stops tests being considered dead and eligible for deletion. If you just excluded the directory called 'test' or similar you'd miss code that is dead other than uses from test code, which is probably a fair approximation to all "dead" code.
If there is ever an AI sophisticated enough to write a new feature, I believe this is the way it will "look" at the code and re-write it
There’s not really much public info on large scale code mod tools.
Theory - Frontend is a giant tree of combination of component's variant of show or hide.
With that fact, I' was attempting to create a code base scanner to automatically convert the code into such configurations.
This article gave me lot of hopes.
That's a lot of "developer productivity"...
This makes me kind of sad, removing dead code was one of the joys of the job.
Edit: Savage in this context can be read as "Very Extreme"
Im sure you would be just aa upset in that case, right?
Floyd–Steinberg dithering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Steinberg_dither...
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering:
I also think it's ridiculous how often this false, harmonious, and overly diverse multi-cultural image is forced on us. To see an extreme example - look at Netflix. Every single relationship on a netflix series is between people from different races and/or genders. Now I'm not saying this is bad. But I am saying it doesn't reflect what happens in the real world. I am also not implying that people ought to avoid relations between other cultures. But I think the reason why we more often see people from similar backgrounds in a relationship is quite frigging simple: THEY HAVE MORE IN COMMON. It's nothing to do with racism. People naturally form cliques with those who have more in common.
So yeah. My basic view is that I refuse to accept warped portrayals of reality. I think it does more harm than good and actually undermines any positive intentions. It also leads to the same kind of virtue signaling witch hunting typified by some of the prior comments to my reply. In which everyone is so scared of being called racist they're willing to ignore reality. Since I'm not such a person I refuse to try walk around egg shells put fourth by people trying to avoid offending anyone. Ultimately, such an approach is dishonest and probably unintentionally isolating towards those it seeks to be inclusive towards.
Stop right there. The correct spelling is: "I'm not racist, but ...":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_not_racist,_but...
>I'm not racist, but... is a phrase that often precedes a racist argument and provides a "veneer of political correctness".[1][2][3]
Now look who's trying to be politically correct.
>Interpretations: The phrase has been described as "hypocritical" and "apologetic". Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tyrone Forman argued that it is used by "the new racists, all the nice Whites".[4][5][6] Alana Lentin, in a op-ed for ABC, cited the phrase as an example of "how denying racism reproduces its violence".[7] Deutsche Welle's Torsten Landsberg and Rachel Stewart wrote that the refrain is "usually followed by an opinion that belies at best ignorance and at worst a deep-seated prejudice or even racially fueled hatred".[8] Ibram X. Kendi felt that its usage is an ineffective means of combating racism.[9]
Your racism is a staggeringly stupid hill to bring up out of the blue, then chose to die on.
There are two fucking wars that could lead to WWIII going on in Ukraine and Israel, and an anti semitic racist with 91 felony criminal indictments is running for president while his minions are trying to shut the government down, yet a photo of black people and white people working together is most important thing you can think of to hijack technical discussions and whine about?
Stop trying to derail technical discussions about automatic dead code cleanup or any other topic into hysterical angry rants about your racism and your deep irrational resentment about pictures of black people and white people working together. We don't care, and it's off topic.
Not to mention it's supremely ironic that a foaming-at-the-mouth crypto-bro get-rich-quick pyramid scheme shill and mathemagical pseudo-scientist like yourself would claim they refuse to accept warped portrayals of reality.
Good luck with your grandiose project to compress random numbers, prove mathematicians and physicists have no idea what they're talking about, and invent perpetual motion machines.
An algorithm for random data compression, code and paper by Matthew Roberts matthew@roberts.pm:
https://news.knowledia.com/US/en/articles/an-algorithm-for-r...
>I've been working on a method to compress random data and I think I may have something interesting to share now. I didn't expect to make much progress on this problem because I've been told it's impossible. But after dividing the problem into manageable pieces, I feel ready to share my solution with you all.
>On a high-level part of what makes compressing random data, a difficult problem is how poorly equipped mathematics seems to be when it comes to randomness. Most of the time you can think of math as dealing with concrete, defined objects. That's what makes it a great tool for understanding the universe but a poor one for generating randomness.
>[...] Read Full Article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210416013853/https://roberts.p...
You're only digging yourself deeper the way you're trying to deny it, showing again how furious a harmless picture of a black man and a white man working together makes you feel. If you didn't want people to know how you really felt, and what really gets your goat, even more than racism itself, you shouldn't have told everyone, then tried to do a 180! Just don't say anything like that in the first place, and grind your angry gears about how oppressed you are by inclusivity quietly to yourself. We don't care, and it's totally off-topic.
anyway, look, if you get this mad because you see a picture of a black person, and then you write a big comment about how you're not racist, that big comment might not be as accurate as you think it is
because you got really mad
I also roll my eyes when I see a stock photo of a "dev team" comprised only of attractive people in suits smiling with perfect teeth. But this isn't McDonald's, I'm not paying for what's in the picture. It's also not messing with language and habits, like "person-in-the-middle" or "allowlist". So what's the problem?
There's also the matter of what aspect people notice and complain. Nobody ever mentions when illustrations depict left handed people (~10%) or red heads (<2%). That's why other comments call you racist. But I understand your complaint is against the pressure to depict diversity, and not that the illustration has black people, correct?
For what it's worth, I find these "woke illustrations" awkward but useful. They signal that the team cares at least a little, and is likely to be accommodating of differences and not blatantly prejudiced. It might also be too political-minded and over eager with PC language, but that's better than being passed over for a promotion because of your ethnicity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
Getting offended at illustrations representing black and white people working together is the kind of dead code we need to eliminate.