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Schauderhaft
Personal blog · blog.schauderhaft.deprogrammingcareer
Schauderhaft is a personal blog at blog.schauderhaft.de about programming and career. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
A post on named parameters in Java, discussed in an HN thread where commenters proposed builder-pattern alternatives to its long argument-list example.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
http://blog.schauderhaft.de
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-08-10
What Hacker News says?
or ObjectName.getBuilder("Alfred E. Neumann", " http://blog.schauderhaft.de , 42, "c:\\temp\\x.txt", 23).build(); maybe? It's not addressing named parameters issue, but I find it better like this.
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on “Named Parameters in Java”Submitted The Scala Collection API Sucks … Or is it a Work of Beauty? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSince long parameter list is considered a code smell, people should be discouraged from writing this kind of code anyways. Namely, this example from the article is in fact a bad practice: > o.doSomething1("Alfred E. Neumann", " http://blog.schauderhaft.de , 42, "c:\\temp\\x.txt", 23); As other commenters have pointed out, I think the builder pattern is one of the two solutions I would use. The other solution is to s…
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on “Named Parameters in Java”Submitted Clean Code with Swing and Scala as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWouldn't the Builder pattern address this issue? So you can do: object.setName("Alfred E. Neumann") .setLink(" http://blog.schauderhaft.de ) .setUltimateAnswer(42) .setTempFile("c:\\temp\\x.txt") .setZip(23);
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on “Named Parameters in Java”Submitted Don’t rewrite Your Application as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where is the Science in Software Development? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala traits: introverts, dissociative identity disorder, Jigsaw Puzzle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Possibly the Most Important Skill for Managers, Coaches, Teachers and Parents as a story · 1 points
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