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by cbhl 4214 days ago
It violates the Google style guide[0] to use unsigned integers. Plus, it'd only defer the problem for another ~2 billion views or so. May as well switch to signed 64-bit integers if you have to swap out the data type.

[0] https://code.google.com/p/google-styleguide/

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Oh, that's interesting. Thanks.

And I wasn't suggesting using unsigned 32-bit integers now, I was curious why they weren't used before (the number of views seems to be a nonnegative quantity...).