Meme transcription:

Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

    • andyburke@fedia.io
      1·
      2 months ago

      You are a fintech dev using floating point? And your advice is to encode things as strings?

      …

      This is why I got out of fintech.

      (I am sorry, I know there are horrors and I am sure I am not familiar with your exact scenario.)

      Edit: just for anyone who passes by: try to stick with integers in a currency’s smallest unit of division. (This is only one small bit of this problem, but the number of times I have seen currency values in floating point makea me psychotic.)

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 months ago

      Just reminded me of an argument trying to explain that arithmetic with floating point numbers is not always correct to a coworker who was a mathematician just starting in software dev.

      In a mathematicians mind the fact that an arithmetic operation can produce inaccurate result is just incomprehensible

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        The fun differences between the perfect world of theoretical and the realistic. Everyone thinks of computers as perfect - but it’s not until you’re asked to solve “How do you store decimals using only 0s and 1s?” does it start to click. Not as easy. It’s why I’m hesitant to hire bootcampers into my roles. Bootcamps are great, and they get more people coding, but you don’t learn that theory behind the scenes - you don’t really know what the computer and operating systems are doing. For 90% of the time it doesn’t matter, it’s abstracted away - but that last 10% man, that can really fuck up an entire system.