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There was a huge discussion yesterday of the original Reddit post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29492884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29492884
by greenyoda 5y ago
There was a huge discussion yesterday of the original Reddit post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29492884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29492884
And today, a very detailed technical analysis of the multiple bugs in Android and Teams that caused the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29513795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29513795
- zamalek 5y agoTL;DR: Subtraction was used for comparison (an optimization trick that nearly always works). We all make mistakes, but here's a great example of why not to go branchless, especially outside of a hot path.