You think timezones are annoying? Try handling metrics that use imperial and metric, need to be rounded to different precisions across a large system, and are sometimes recorded in a different unit than it's viewed in. Slap some floating point error on there, and you got yourself a fun time.

I spent all day working on bug where backend was categorizing 19.9999 as falling between <20, but frontend was rounding it to 20 and categorizing it as >=20.

Edit: just to be clear, I don’t really think this is more difficult than date/time. But it does remind me a lot of solving date/time issues.

[–] FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully you're not working for NASA.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I remember talking about ths in early semesters of Software Engineer career in college

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