Being correct is really important sometimes. The blog's last example really hit home to me. For my last job I had to process six million records a minute on a s

Being correct is really important sometimes. The blog's last example really hit home to me. For my last job I had to process six million records a minute on a shitty embedded CPU and Python (normally my go-to) completely barfed when I got to the domain-specific logic. While pedants on the Internet can be frustrating, we shouldn't generalise when there are many situations where we should be both precise and relevant. HN encourages curious discussion and I think that's an apt description of the discourse that I enjoy most here. Precision can generate curious conversation.