> Sigh. The HackerNews standard of pushing some logic to its limits and going "HA, GOTCHA" is getting tiring.
So is the Hacker News standard of ignoring the entire point just to nag about said supposed standard. Sigh.
Said entire point, specifically, being that there are far more reasons to develop and maintain software beyond "value for end users", and that even when targeting that specific reason, developing against esoteric cases does ensure the software is more robust even for "normal" use cases.
(And mind you, logic - like software - should be pushed to its limits, because that's the most surefire way to identify its flaws - like, for example, the failure to consider that nearly all computing platforms in existence and use today were and are the product of some large corporation that could be paying your bills but won't, or the failure to consider that it's users, not hardware vendors, who are generating support requests for their hardware)
So is the Hacker News standard of ignoring the entire point just to nag about said supposed standard. Sigh.
Said entire point, specifically, being that there are far more reasons to develop and maintain software beyond "value for end users", and that even when targeting that specific reason, developing against esoteric cases does ensure the software is more robust even for "normal" use cases.
(And mind you, logic - like software - should be pushed to its limits, because that's the most surefire way to identify its flaws - like, for example, the failure to consider that nearly all computing platforms in existence and use today were and are the product of some large corporation that could be paying your bills but won't, or the failure to consider that it's users, not hardware vendors, who are generating support requests for their hardware)