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this is what stood out to me reading the story. i wonder if there was a reason why they opted for this, however half-baked. it reads less to me like a case for
by notnmeyer 3y ago
this is what stood out to me reading the story. i wonder if there was a reason why they opted for this, however half-baked.
it reads less to me like a case for devops as it does a case for better practices at every stage of development. how arrogant or willfully ignorant do you have to be to operate like this considering what’s at stake?
- SoftTalker 3y agoThey probably already had a bitfield of feature flags, maybe it was a 16-bit integer and full, and someone notices "hey this one is old, we can reuse it and not have to change the datatype"
- notnmeyer 3y agoah, yeah—hadn’t considered that!