Comment Comment by renewiltord In general, I agree. You don’t want silent failures. They’re awful and hard to reason about.> By doing this, you're opening up for the possibility of showing a UI where the name is "". Is that really a valid state for the UI?But as a user, if I get a white screen of death instead of your program saying “Hi, , you have 3 videos on your watchlist” I am going to flip out.Programmers know this so they do that so that something irrelevant like my name doesn’t prevent me from actually streaming my movies. parent renewiltord 11 months ago
> By doing this, you're opening up for the possibility of showing a UI where the name is "". Is that really a valid state for the UI?
But as a user, if I get a white screen of death instead of your program saying “Hi, , you have 3 videos on your watchlist” I am going to flip out.
Programmers know this so they do that so that something irrelevant like my name doesn’t prevent me from actually streaming my movies.