Hacker News Reader

I assume you don't write device drivers or operating systems?

Predicting every possible failure reason for a function is impossible. Every function is a maybe function.

If enumerating every possible failure mode of a function is impossible, then that would underscore the importance of failing fast and dynamically restarting components in order to provide robustness in the face of unforeseeable errors.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com