[feverishly applauds]

Wasn’t there a story about people calling curl devs because of car issues?

For what it’s worth, I’m sure the SQLite devs could help somebody clean up their temp files. They just really shouldn’t have to.

I think we’re fully in agreement here: if the API doesn’t specify how to handle null values, that omission means they’re perfectly valid and expected.

Imagine a delivery company’s van exploding if somebody attempts to ship an empty box. That would be a very poorly built van.

That’s the thing though, isn’t it? The devs on either side are entering into a contract (the API) that addresses this issue, even if by omission. Whoever breaks the contract must rightfully be ejected into the stratosphere.

Thanks for the transcription!

Surely Java can tell the difference between a key with a null value and the absence of that key, no?

I mean, you can set up your deserialization to handle nulls in different ways, but a string to object dictionary would capture this, right?

[sits quietly in the corner]

Yes, but did you get the job?

Also props for the image description.

Yeah, I’m all about Jetbrains in Night theme. Thanks for the alt text, by the way.

First it needs to work, then it needs to work well, and finally it may or may not work quickly. Along the way, it should also be humorously weird.

Why not ‘i’?

I decided to be wrong because the correct joke would be too convoluted. I’ll work on that implementation and then you can inject it at runtime via reflection.

Would you like a snake to replace your camel?

Self-documenting code, high contrast… Carry on.

I don’t know, at least ‘SetPerformance()’ could throw an argument out of bounds exception.

Perfect! Don’t forget to assert the same exception in all the tests.

I smell a NotImplementedException somewhere.

Found the Python developer. Hehe. Thanks for the reminder that we can do this stuff: all the common layouts are just suggestions, we can’t make our lives easier by recognizing that.

But the only way to make a single is to split a double. It just can’t be done.

Every time I go into the office we take like 5 coffee breaks throughout the day. Some coworkers have switched from pods to espresso machines to bring down the cost per cup.

Is it just my team? I feel like this is pretty common.

I’m gonna go find an SRE to hug, it sounds like they need it.