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Firstly, I’ve never said people shouldn’t have NULL. I said columns should default to be nullable. Secondly, I’d already given outer joins as an example of why
by pushpop 7y ago
Firstly, I’ve never said people shouldn’t have NULL. I said columns should default to be nullable.
Secondly, I’d already given outer joins as an example of why SQL needs to support NULL.
I would be nice that people like yourself bothered to read the comments your reacting to instead of jumping off the deep end (-4 on my original post now and people like yourself are literally just reiterating the same points I’ve been making. It’s insane)
- zzzeek 7y agoIf five people misunderstood your comment (which says nothing about outer joins as I reread it) maybe it is your writing that would need to be clearer.
- pushpop 7y agoMaybe but my experience on HN is that there’s sometimes a mentality of “fools never differ” on here. I’ve seen countless correct and/or experienced commenters get downvoted even when the comment is well written. It’s also worth remembering that five people is still only a very small subset of the hundreds that would have read the comment and did understand/agree but didn’t bother to comment for fear of the wrath of those who have already expressed disagreement. For example I was actually voted up several times before the others commented (as well as a few times since). So it’s really not worth blaming individuals for the comments of others. The only possible outcome from that is starting another, much stupider, argument.