Show HN: Sqlkit – Golang SQL package with nested transactions

Re:Show HN: Sqlkit – Golang SQL package with nested transact... by pushpop on Saturday July 13, 2019 @06:36PM (#20430572)

Firstly, I’ve never said people shouldn’t have NULL. I said columns should default to be nullable.

Secondly, I’d already given outer joins as an example of why SQL needs to support NULL.

I would be nice that people like yourself bothered to read the comments your reacting to instead of jumping off the deep end (-4 on my original post now and people like yourself are literally just reiterating the same points I’ve been making. It’s insane)

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Re:Show HN: Sqlkit – Golang SQL package with nested transact... by zzzeek on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @01:46PM (#20452253)

If five people misunderstood your comment (which says nothing about outer joins as I reread it) maybe it is your writing that would need to be clearer.

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Re:Show HN: Sqlkit – Golang SQL package with nested transact... by pushpop on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:31PM (#20453117)

Maybe but my experience on HN is that there’s sometimes a mentality of “fools never differ” on here. I’ve seen countless correct and/or experienced commenters get downvoted even when the comment is well written.

It’s also worth remembering that five people is still only a very small subset of the hundreds that would have read the comment and did understand/agree but didn’t bother to comment for fear of the wrath of those who have already expressed disagreement. For example I was actually voted up several times before the others commented (as well as a few times since).

So it’s really not worth blaming individuals for the comments of others. The only possible outcome from that is starting another, much stupider, argument.

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