this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
265 points (99.3% liked)
Programmer Humor
31403 readers
1263 users here now
Welcome to Programmer Humor!
This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!
For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.
Rules
- Keep content in english
- No advertisements
- Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
What do you use instead of booleans ? floats ?
strings "true" and "false" ofc like any sane developer
I got a better one: O for true and N for false.
Seen in production for quite important stuff (payment requests).
O is from Oui, N from Non, of course!
😐🫤
This is awful and aweful at the same time.
Horrible even.
good fucking god
it allows for mood changes, some parts of the code can check
charAt(0) == 't'others can doval != 'false'just let it flow.lord mary joseph make it stop
And for double fun if the output doesn’t matter you can make if endsWith(“e”).
Use a
CHAR(1)you can then use it as an enumeration.Don't use
T/Ffor true/false use it for the actual sematic meaning for the thing that the Boolean is toggling. E g. S for subscribed, U for unsubscribed, or whatever.It also means when you inevitably grow to needing a tri-state it makes sense.
Unless SQLite actually supports enumerations, then just use them
I think you could use a CHECK constraint to effectively create en enum
Sometimes it's 0 and 1
Smallest INT it can support and only ever use 0 and 1.