jondubois · HackerTrans

I can't help but think of all the millions of economically useful people who lost their jobs over the past couple of months because of COVID19... And contrast that with all the economically useless Giphy employees and executives who not only get to keep their jobs but get massive bonuses.

jondubois

6 lat temudiscuss

Clearly this acquisition has nothing to do with either Facebook's or Giphy's businesses... Not sure you can even call Giphy a 'business' because that would imply that an attempt had been made at creating value.

jondubois

6 lat temudiscuss

It's a great match. They're both hype-mongering companies which add no value whatsoever to society.

jondubois

6 lat temudiscuss

The title is misleading. It should be "Facebook executives give free money and Facebook shares to Giphy executives and save Giphy from bankruptcy."

jondubois

7 lat temudiscuss

>> consumes a lot of computational power—up to 10 percent or more of the total time a CPU spends on an application.

I stopped reading there. 10% is nothing. For such a useful feature as automatic garbage collection, for the vast majority of applications, I'd gladly give away 50% of the CPU.

In terms of ensuring code correctness and robustness, if I had to choose static typing or automatic garbage collection, I'd pick garbage collection every time. It adds a lot of value in terms of development efficiency and code simplicity.

jondubois

8 lat temudiscuss

This is surprising considering that SQLite is very heavily tested. It shows that ridiculous amounts of testing with 100% coverage of every code path and "millions and millions" of test cases still doesn't guarantee that the program always works as intended.

I think that this is an important lesson about testing. We should have fewer tests but we should try to get the most value possible out of each one and for developers that means actively seeking out unusual edge cases that are likely to break things.

Source: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

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