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> I've always found it's a good idea to not deviate. Aren't you assuming "surgery in repl" is a deviation? What if it's normal course of action for him? > Mor
by irahul 14y ago
> I've always found it's a good idea to not deviate.
Aren't you assuming "surgery in repl" is a deviation? What if it's normal course of action for him?
> More or less my point. If this wasn't a deviation from normal behavior you would have "checked the comments after the surgery" because it would have either become habit or the shear number of times you tried a fix resulting in an error would have made that more likely to occur.
How about the opposite scenario? He has done it so many times with desired results, that he didn't bother checking?
- badgar 14y ago> Aren't you assuming "surgery in repl" is a deviation? What if it's normal course of action for him? This is a big difference between engineering and hacking. An engineer would never regularly do something so dangerous. But I suspect pg isn't an engineer when he works on HN, I suspect he is a hacker, and just does whatever he wants to, whenever he wants. Which is his prerogative.