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If you can't get your pricing page right you have to wonder what else is a mess under the hood at Atlassian

• HelloNurse 4y ago
  Under the hood they might prefer to do accounting in floating point. BigDecimal isn't meant for true programmers.
  • cube00 4y ago
    My life got infinitely easier once I learnt the financial world all use integers in cents to do their money calculations.
    • quicklime 4y ago
      Not all, many situations make use of prices and calculations in the fractions of a cent. For example forex trading, or even gas stations.
      • pixiemaster 4y ago
        still those probably are treated as Integer of a millionth cent
    • singingfish 4y ago
      Generally decicents (10 decicents = 1 cent) makes all normal currency calculations much easier/reliable. If you need lower resolution use millicents or microcents
    • pedrovhb 4y ago
      Is that the case? I was under the impression that Decimals were used in financial contexts because (besides preventing floating point error) you can define how to handle things such as rounding behavior. For instance, at least in Python, 3//2 == 1 while -3//2 == -2; integer division is rounded down, and not towards zero as one may expect. Decimal lets you pick how you want that to go.
  • vesinisa 4y ago
    Would someone please think of the performanz!
  • raverbashing 4y ago
    Ah yes when the system thinks you owe them 0.0000000001
• tgv 4y ago
  I'm not a big Atlassian hater, but the other day I spent 7 hours trying to fix an account migration error. Two users had access rights and all, but couldn't see any repository. I ended up deleting them and adding other accounts. It was ... odd. Oh, and there's that thing of joining an empty workspace. And that other thing. Yes, there's quite a bit wrong under the hood. Feels like teams working on small features that don't work well together (either the teams or the implementation).