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It's surprisingly hard to do this. Never means never and then you have to remember the flag and decide what later things it applies to.
by astrange 2y ago
It's surprisingly hard to do this. Never means never and then you have to remember the flag and decide what later things it applies to.
- rozap 2y ago....what? persistence is a solved problem. i hate it when engineers do this song and dance "well actually it's really hard to do that" in order to justify the position that they already had before the conversation started. no it isn't, it literally isn't, it's just smoke and mirrors to justify your position.
- namaria 2y agoI know a guy who made a career out of advising management about this sort of foot dragging in software engineering. He is very wealthy.
- astrange 2y agoPersistence of flags in the database is a solved problem. Persistence of /people who work at the company who remember what the flags mean/ is not. What if you've made a promise to never show something, it has legal effect in some country, and a new PM in charge of a new feature uses the wrong flag?
- dayvigo 2y agoI'm not sure anyone who finds it difficult to write values to file and read from them later should be working on commercial software. I genuinely struggle to think of any single feature that could be more trivial than this is.
- pseudalopex 2y agoLater means you have to remember the flag and decide what later things it applies to.
- astrange 2y agoWho's you? Large companies have many different people working at them and designing a business process that can make it so there is a "you" to decide this may actually be impossible.