Wisdom

Programmers struggle with the gray areas

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programmers and developers tend to really struggle when it comes to things that are gray. Like, well, what do I do when these set of variables don't really mesh out?

Episode 36: we're crawling on life away here. Maybe we are, maybe some other (approx., from transcript intro) 00:20:59 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Big aggregators fall down through sheer numbers and need optimization shortcuts, and every aggregator, Dave's included, has bugs. Those bugs often live in gray areas where it's unclear how to handle a situation. Developers struggle with cases where the variables don't mesh cleanly.