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Maybe software engineers are just paranoid. Our best practice is to take hoarding to the extreme; keep every version of every file that ever existed, add a not
by jrockway 3y ago
Maybe software engineers are just paranoid. Our best practice is to take hoarding to the extreme; keep every version of every file that ever existed, add a note about it, and push the entire history to each new checkout.
It probably does stem from some sort of loss aversion. We have all wished for longer undo history, things like git take that to the extreme. Now that we can't lose things, we're free to work without that fear.
- bombcar 3y agoThere's a very particular pain you get when you know you had something and you lost it; or worse, you know you threw it away. It may be related to too good of a memory, or autism, or whatever, but there are parts of my life where I have way too good a memory for everything I have and had, and other parts where I'm like "yeah I got a lot of something like that, but who cares".
- chelonian 3y ago> There's a very particular pain you get when you know you had something and you lost it; or worse, you know you threw it away. CONSOLATION GROOK Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again. --Piet Hein https://www.phys.ufl.edu/~thorn/grooks.html https://www.phys.ufl.edu/~thorn/grooks.html