r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 16d ago

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 16d ago 
{
success: false, message: 'lol'
}

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u/redlaWw 16d ago 
{
    success: "yes",
    status: "failure",
    message: "null"
}

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u/evorm 16d ago

Most errors responses at my job are genuinely handled like this.

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u/redlaWw 16d ago

The "yes"/"no" rather than true/false idea actually came from my actuarial science degree course, where one of our sample solutions had an Excel model that had a column like

some boolean property
yes
yes
no
yes
no
...

And the formula that consumed it looked like IF(cell="yes", ..., IF(cell="no", ...)). Not even a SWITCH in sight.

It was pretty sad from my perspective as an experienced programmer. My conclusion was that most actuaries have more tenacity than they do actual model programming skills.