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   by corrral 4y ago

   See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canne_de_combat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu (related to the first link—it's a martial art Sherlock Holmes is familiar with, in the Doyle sto
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   by corrral 4y ago

   I don't mean well-considered and documented libraries, I mean the thing where someone goes to DRY up a codebase and keeps thinking "oh, if I just add a parameter this function can also handle this one-off case over here..."
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   by corrral 4y ago

   When I did a lot of dual-platform mobile dev, the teams would always watch Google and Apple events. The Apple ones were exciting, because they'd usually announce a bunch of OS and development-related stuff we could start using very soo
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   by corrral 4y ago

   > Copypasta tends to accumulate minor differences and figuring out if those minor differences matters can become very time consuming. The DRY version of this is functions/constructors/methods that take a stupid number of parame
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   by corrral 4y ago

   Can confirm. I once, with perfect calm and focus, steered into a bad slide on long slightly-downhill curve covered in ice. I'd never, ever done that in real life before then, in 15+ years of driving. I didn't think about it, didn&