Re:Ultra marathon runner earns awards for both first place w...
by chrisoverzero on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:21AM
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> […] it has never happened before.
FTA:
> “Obviously there’s a lot of great women runners, but you don’t see them winning ultras outright a lot. When it happens, they get two awards.”
Sounds as though it’s infrequent, but not unprecedented.
> Edge cases are a poor guide for good policy.
Consider this situation to have been a bug in a production environment. Would you advise your junior developers not to patch it, or write unit tests for it? Edge cases are where the rubber meets the road.
FTA:
> “Obviously there’s a lot of great women runners, but you don’t see them winning ultras outright a lot. When it happens, they get two awards.”
Sounds as though it’s infrequent, but not unprecedented.
> Edge cases are a poor guide for good policy.
Consider this situation to have been a bug in a production environment. Would you advise your junior developers not to patch it, or write unit tests for it? Edge cases are where the rubber meets the road.