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by nabbe23 3y ago
Yes sir :) And pragmatically - this always happens at some point. Something something about deadlines and need to get this out yesterday.
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by nabbe23 3y ago
Well-written breaking tests represent something changing in a code base. You can be intentional about breaking a test, but then at least you can be very explicit about what you are changing. Have seen all to many times I've broken a un
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by nabbe23 3y ago
This really hits the nail on the head, so many people miss this. Didn't realize myself until I was diagnosed with a sarcoma (1% of adult cancer diagnoses), MPNST (a single digit percentage of sarcomas ). Doctors scrambled to figure ou
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by nabbe23 4y ago
There are certainly times when comments are important and appropriate (C code is probably a great example) - but I find myself more often than not struggling to understand if an existing comment is truly up to date (commit history sometimes
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by nabbe23 4y ago
> When done poorly, compression removes insights. When done well, compression keeps the insights and removes the rest. Compression requires both thinking and understanding, which is one reason writing is so important. Great writing requi
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by nabbe23 4y ago
A lot of people here voicing displeasure for in office work - so I'll add a counter point: I really miss the in person communication and relationship building of office work. I would love to be back in office 3 or 4 days a week, but ha
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by nabbe23 4y ago
Check out Amazon KMS if you're on AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/kms/ , theres really no way to get around using a secrets manager. For non-technical secrets, most organizations have a password manager (1password has
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by nabbe23 4y ago
I do wonder if in all of the cost cutting some of these massive companies have focused on in previous years, we are going to see more and more dangerous bugs like this come out of the webwork as a result of refusal to pay their best enginee