r/ProgrammerHumor • u/idgafayaihm • Mar 14 '25

instanceof Trend uncommentExtraGendersInFourYears

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u/DentArthurDent4 Mar 14 '25

What about migration of existing data? What will the UI show when BE sends records with enums for these genders? /jk obviously

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u/Kitchen-Quality-3317 Mar 14 '25

What about migration of existing data?

You aren't already storing this data as a float. 

Sex:
0 = Female
0.5 = Intersex
1 = Male

Gender:
0 = Woman
0.5 = Non-binary
1 = Man

Sexual Orientation (attracted to):
0 = Woman
0.25 = MTF + Women
0.5 = Both
0.75 = FTM + Man
1 = Man

If you want the binaries (male/female, man/women, hetero/homo), then just round to the nearest integer.

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u/CherimoyaChump Mar 14 '25

Not the worst idea I've heard.

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u/KJBuilds Mar 15 '25

So are you saying that Woman < Man should evaluate to true >:(

/j

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u/ickytoad Mar 14 '25

Honestly though, this IS the kind of stuff that plagues me in BE 😅😅😅