alt Hacker NewsYour elevator should not have automatic doors, doors are restrictive. They stop you from quickly jumping out of the elevator if you decide that you actually want to stay at the first floor.
Sure, we’ve seen some pretty gnarly accidents, and there is no reasonable situation where risking death is a sane choice.
But ask yourself: is it the elevator's job to prevent an accident? If you think so, I suggest you never leave your home again, as safety is your own concern.
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C programmers non-ironically believe this
And of course they only believe this because they don't lose a finger when they write outside of bounds or they don't fall down the shaft once a pointer was accidentally null
Did you even read the second half of the post? The author's answer to your concerns is testing. He suggests relying on tests rather than on strict type system that forces you to design everything upfront.
Personally, I can see arguments for both approaches - stricter types or more tests.
> “never wear a helmet you coward”.
Unironically the biggest flame-wars I ever saw on forums back in the day was on whether or not mandatory bike helmets made cycling safer or more dangerous.