koopa184

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1. 1.▲
   by koopa184 8y ago

   "Personal gain" need not factor into things at all. Humans have some degree of natural altruism.
2. 2.▲
   by koopa184 8y ago

   Exactly. They had engineers dedicated to creating an open source latency/fault tolerance library called Hystrix. Not too surprising they’re dedicating resources to other projects, too.
3. 3.▲
   by koopa184 9y ago

   I'm genuinely curious here: what would you propose as an alternative?
4. 4.▲
   by koopa184 9y ago

   The C standard explicitly lists signed integer overflow as an undefined behavior. Any undefined behavior in your program essentially makes it semantically meaningless. There is no guarantee that the compiler will even emit the assembly inst