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Unfortunately, developers rarely learn to look around corners until they have been burned a few times by not doing so (and often burned everything around them i

• lifeisstillgood 7y ago
  The looking round corners starts with things like not using email addresses as primary keys. I mean the developer before this one in the article built a wooden hut and splashed petrol all over the walls. Blaming someone else for lighting a match is kinda missing the point. Yes consider the knockon effects, but be sensible and build firebreaks
  • ledauphin 7y ago
    I don't necessarily agree here. An email address is itself a globally addressable primary key. In a lot of real world systems, the benefits of abstracting that are lower than the costs.
    • mooreds 7y ago
      But it isn't immutable in the long run. That is, the same entity may have more than one email address over time.
    • peheje 7y ago
      You are not looking around the corner.
• mooreds 7y ago
  I always say that people pay more for senior developers because they've made mistakes on previous employer's dimes.