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[–] Mars@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know it’s a joke, but it’s an old one and it doesn’t make a lot of sense in this day and age.

Why are you comparing null to numbers? Shouldn’t you be assuring your values are valid first? Why are you using the “cast everything to the type you see fit and compare” operator?

Other languages would simply fail. Once more JavaScript greatest sin is not throwing an exception when you ask it to do things that don’t make sense.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Shouldn’t you be assuring your values are valid first?

Step 1: Get to prod

Step 2-10: Add features

Step 11: Sell the company before it bites you