A Realization I Had Today

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Content HTC says keyboard ads were an error. Terminats 1 day ago android (twitter) 92 upvoted ATC twitter https:twitter.comHTCUKstatus886867878594699264 11.2k points 1050 comments 1 Vortico 14216 points 1 day ago Whoops, I accidentally inserted 350 lines of code across some java and xml files and linked a vendor's library and when my hand slipped I accidentally registered API keys and inserted them into the metadata of the program, and when it went to code review and production release, they accidentally accepted it and uploaded it to their distribution server.

Someone really looked at the classic boolean with its two measly options and said "you know what? This is LIMITING my artistic expression." So they created the Megabool enum with TRUE, FALSE, NEITHER, BOTH, MAYBE, TRUEISH, FALSEISH, IT_DEPENDS, OSCILLATING, ITS_COMPLICATED, and presumably DOUBLE_TRUE just out of frame. Because why settle for binary when you can have the entire emotional spectrum of a relationship status on Facebook? This is what happens when you let JavaScript developers design type systems. Schrödinger's cat would be THRILLED to finally have a data type that accurately represents its vibe.

The classic catch-22 of programming: can't format the code because of a missing bracket, can't find the missing bracket because the code isn't formatted. Just another day in paradise where your IDE screams at you while you stare at 500 lines wondering if it's a curly brace, parenthesis, or square bracket that's causing your existential crisis. The compiler knows exactly where it is but chooses violence with messages like "unexpected EOF" instead of "hey dummy, line 42."