AggressivelyPassive

Again, did you actually read the comments?

Is SQL an API contract using JSON? I hardly think so.

Java does not distinguish between null and non-existence within an API contract. Neither does Python. JS is the weird one here for having two different identifiers.

Why are you so hellbent on proving something universal that doesn’t apply for the case specified above? Seriously, you’re the “well, ackshually” meme in person. You are unable or unwilling to distinguish between abstract and concrete. And that makes you pretty bad engineers.

Did you read the comments above?

You can’t just ignore context and proclaim some universal truth, which just happens to be your opinion.

Nope.

If there’s a clear definition that there can be something, implicit and explicit omission are equivalent. And that’s exactly the case we’re talking about here.

I find it really weird that something as simple as the basic functionality of nextcloud seemingly can’t be implemented in a stable and lightweight manner.

Nextcloud always seems one update away from self destruction and it prepares for that by hoarding all the resources it can get. It never feels fast or responsive. I just want a way to share files between my machines.

There are other solutions, I know, but they’re all terrible in their own way.

That’s exactly not the thing, because nobody broke the contract, they simply interpret it differently in details.

Having a null reference is perfectly valid json, as long as it’s not explicitly prohibited. Null just says “nothing in here” and that’s exactly what an omission also communicates.

The difference is just whether you treat implicit and explicit non-existence differently. And neither interpretation is wrong per contract.

It can, but especially during serialization Java sometimes adds null references to null values.

That’s usually a mistake by the API designer and/or Java dev, but happens pretty often.

Aber wer kauft sich denn noch gedruckte Zeitungen? Das sind doch nur Rentner und Menschen, die am Bahnhof dem Zug WLAN nicht trauen.

Ist dann aber auch ein bisschen selbsterfüllende Prophezeiung. Warum sollte ich für den Spiegel zahlen, wenn es 20% DPA Printout und 80% billiger Müll ist.

Natürlich gibt es auch gute Artikel, aber die gehen even unter.

Ganz einfach, trickle down economics.

Wenn die großen Autos ein paar Jahre alt und abgeschliffen sind, können sich die armen über tolle Kleinwagen freuen!

Maybe you were just at a bad school? Quadratic equations are mandatory in Germany even for the lowest level of graduation.

Until my Abitur (12th grade) I learned about equations, stochastics, integrals and derivatives, vector stuff, etc.

That’s software development for you. Why is that weird value there? Because some guy, at some point, had checked for that and somehow it’s still relevant.

I know of a system that churns through literally millions of transactions representing millions of Euros every day, and their interface has load bearing typos (because Germans in the 90s were really bad at the Englishs).

If you actually want to learn maths (that is, if you’re not just venting), you could try to ask for help in dedicated math or teaching communities.

The problem with teaching stuff you know, is to put yourself in a position of actually not knowing anything. I’m a software developer and had to teach some apprentices a few years ago, and it was really eye opening to me to see how much assumptions about the apprentice’s knowledge I made even though I thought I made my explanation “basic”.

It’s quite possible that all the tutorials you’ve read are either for literal children, so they just don’t work for your adult brain, or they’re intended for adults and assume too much.

On a personal note: how did you get into that situation? Were you home schooled?

Damit konnte niemand rechnen.

Hitler was inspired by the US exterminating it’s Native population and by the US reservation system.

Don’t act like being American gives you some unique perspective. Wow, that looks stupid, right?

There’s a clear difference between living in society and ruling that society.

Sure, but you’re implying that not being part of the ruling class absolves you from any guilt or responsibility. And that is literally what all Germans said after the war. What was I supposed to do?

And you’re living in a democracy.

Ich habe genau verstanden, was du meinst. Ich halte es nur für fundamental falsch.

Du ignorierst die Realität um weiterhin in einer Kuschelwelt leben zu können.

Are you perhaps under the impression that all Americans in 1776 were Founders

Are you perhaps under the impression that us stupid Europeans don’t know what you’re talking about?

Comparing that to bystanders and voting and buying local and being complacent is absurd

Again, I’m German. I’ve heard that excuse before.

Ich glaube eher, du verstehst nicht, womit du es zu tun hast.

Wir reden von Menschen, die in ihrer eigenen Welt leben, in der Probleme existieren, die es in der Realität nicht gibt. Es gibt keine Welle an Kriminalität, niemand wird gelyncht weil er nicht gendert, Russland steht nicht vor der Tür, weil wir Waffen schicken und die Kinder werden auch nicht frühsexualisiert.

Die AfD nimmt den Unmut der Menschen auf, aber nicht die Probleme der Menschen. Vorpommern ist eine national befreite Zone, es ist physikalisch unmöglich dort Probleme mit Ausländern zu bekommen. Trotzdem 35% AfD.

Und wenn jemand von vorne bis hinten nur Müll erzählt, dann muss man irgendwo auch sagen, Uwe, das ist Müll und wenn du das glaubst, bist du ein Idiot, denn das stimmt nicht mit der Realität überein.

Du redest die ganze Zeit, als ob wir es mit Leuten zu tun hätten, die unser neues Konzept für die Erbschaftssteuer nicht ganz so gut finden. Aber das ist eben schon sehr lange nicht mehr der Fall. Appeasement funktioniert irgendwann nicht mehr. Hat es '38 nicht, tut es jetzt nicht.

The Founders were among history’s monsters and you need to stop trying to protect their legacy by painting us with their brush. Chattel slavery was a uniquely horrible institution and its end mattered.

Dude, I’m German. I know a thing or two about facing the past. So don’t act like I’m defending anyone.

I didn’t choose to enslave anyone and I have no power to free them.

As far as I know, only about a third of people in the US back then ever owned slaves. The other two thirds didn’t choose that either. Yet most of them got complacent for a pretty long time.

Also, you do have a choice. You can buy clothes that are maybe not morally pure, but at least better. You could buy a Fairphone. You could become politically active or at least vote for the better candidates/parties. Sure, that won’t turn the world into utopia over night, but at least you can make it a bit better.

We all have to face the fact that our actions and inactions cause suffering, and some of that is indeed not in our power to change. But your stance of essentially giving up and pointing at the other crime as ever worse is hypocritical.

As Adorno said: there’s no right living in the wrong. And we are so wrong currently the slave population in this world is higher than ever in the US: https://www.un.org/en/delegate/50-million-people-modern-slavery-un-report

Man kann Linke oder CDU, meinetwegen auch PBC oder sonst eine Partei wählen. Aber wer die AfD wählt, zeigt doch ganz klar, dass ihm die fdgo egal ist.

Ich will die nicht davon überzeugen, dass die Ampel toll ist, ich will ihnen die roten Linien zeigen. Nazis und Sympathisanten muss gezeigt werden, dass ihre Meinung ganz klar nicht in Ordnung ist, dass ihr Verhalten nicht in Ordnung ist.

Klar kann man über Gründe diskutieren, aber wer mit Demokratie und Realität ohnehin schon gebrochen hat, wird auch nicht von Analysen überzeugt.

Welche denn? Du wiederholst immer nur wieder, dass man sie nicht beleidigen soll, obwohl sich das historisch offensichtlich nicht bewährt hat.

Was ist also deine Alternative?