invaderzirp

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by invaderzirp 2y ago
No, you just need to both understand how your system works and then clearly write down what it's doing and why. If projects like Postgres and SQLite and musl libc and the Linux kernel can all do it, I think the CRUD app authors can do
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
Especially on teams where deviance has been normalized, and broken things are just expected. I've been bitten both ways before: is this an obvious mistake? Or the lynchpin holding up the house of cards? Of course, if someone had just w
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
"Oh yeah, those tests are always flaky. We just rerun them until they pass. Or we turn them off. I mean, Jeff wrote them like three years ago and he quit last year, so..." I'd rather have the prose. And if it's wrong, th
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
Erm, this is what docs are for. Like a man page, where it'll give you function signatures and return types and explain what those functions do. Unit tests are not that, and they shouldn't be that, because that's not their pur
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
What's stopping someone from reading the code, studying it deeply, and then writing down what it does? That's what I do, but I see people struggle with it because they just want to get more tickets done.
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
Ah yes, states' rights being used to justify treating people poorly. Famously, this has never happened before ever.
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
Please stop spamming this conspiracy theory. It devalues the discourse. Thank you.
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
Ah yes, "we can't do anything before an election", despite it always being just before some election, and also it's totally okay when one party does it.
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
A lot of people's salaries depend on screwing over customers.
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
I've seen people argue for the most heinous shit here without so much as a slap on the wrist. HN isn't above politics, it's just above the _wrong_ politics.
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
Because a chargeback is for some sort of fraud, and as scummy as crap like this is, it usually doesn't count. It's not a universal "I want this charge to stop" tool. A human WILL review it, and you WILL get dinged, up to
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
You're overthinking it. If there's any confusion, it will go to court, and reasonable humans will decide that, actually, the form being in a filing cabinet in the basement isn't actually reasonable.
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
If it does, then "record profits" sure is a bizarre way to punish them.
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted (jk I know exactly why). HN will have an entire goddamn Bollywood dance number around the fact that big corporations screw people over, and government has to come in and fix it. "Omg wow, this
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but I, for one, cannot wait to hear from the Supreme Court about how unconstitutional this is for some made-up reason that just so happens to benefit every company ever. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
Well yeah, and people aren't clamoring to sign up for my new Face Puncher 9000 robot, either. I wonder why.
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
"Everyone who doesn't want to do business with me is blackmailing me! Also they're very mean!"
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
This shouldn't be surprising anymore. This has happened every week since 2010. This is the VC cycle, and it happens over and over and over and over and over again. In fact, I'm sure there's some flashy new thing on the front
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by invaderzirp 2y ago
This is what happens when massive amounts of free money slosh around courtesy of ZIRP. Question is: will everybody rush to join whatever new darling graces the front page? Or will they finally learn their lesson?