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I'd take his argument even further. I am pretty good at programming. When I have written a program, I believe it's right. I always test, before moving to pro
by rossdavidh 7y ago
I'd take his argument even further. I am pretty good at programming. When I have written a program, I believe it's right.
I always test, before moving to production. Always. Even if it seems trivial to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, by argument, that this code is correct. Always test, before moving to production.
- thrower123 7y agoIt always amazes me the amount of code I encounter that it is clear no one has ever tried to execute. People will have a week of checkins building some API out, and it maybe compiles, but as soon as you try to just hit it with Postman with a real request, it blows up like a grenade going off in a glass shop. I just don't know how people do it. I have to iterate and poke at things constantly as I go.
- abecedarius 7y agoWe programmers get our noses rubbed in our own mistakes many times a day. Once in a while we get to find out that code we were sure of for years was embarrassingly wrong. You would expect people with so much experience of fallibility to become especially aware of it, especially ready to have their minds changed by argument, when it comes to unrelated even-more-complicated topics like politics and economics... if you were an alien unexposed to human nature.