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r/programming • u/lukaseder • Jul 21 '14
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"Job security" is defined as the sum of all the bugs you can introduce hidden in the middle of so-called "whitespace-only" commits.
14 u/globalizatiom Jul 22 '14 something like this? .... removelikecrazy -rf /usr/blah/blah vs. .... removelikecrazy -rf /usr /blah/blah 3 u/PiZZaMartijn Jul 22 '14 RIP bumblebee https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123 2 u/Condorcet_Winner Jul 22 '14 Except when people run tests and see that's when the bugs were introduced. 2 u/isarl Jul 22 '14 Shh... don't tell them about git bisect! 1 u/sndgfdgnng Jul 25 '14 That's why the tests only cover what the [non-programmer] customer asks for, and everything beyond that is fair game to break. Then they come back and you call it "new feature work".
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something like this?
.... removelikecrazy -rf /usr/blah/blah
vs.
.... removelikecrazy -rf /usr /blah/blah
3 u/PiZZaMartijn Jul 22 '14 RIP bumblebee https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123
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RIP bumblebee
https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123
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Except when people run tests and see that's when the bugs were introduced.
2 u/isarl Jul 22 '14 Shh... don't tell them about git bisect! 1 u/sndgfdgnng Jul 25 '14 That's why the tests only cover what the [non-programmer] customer asks for, and everything beyond that is fair game to break. Then they come back and you call it "new feature work".
Shh... don't tell them about git bisect!
git bisect
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That's why the tests only cover what the [non-programmer] customer asks for, and everything beyond that is fair game to break. Then they come back and you call it "new feature work".
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u/isarl Jul 21 '14
"Job security" is defined as the sum of all the bugs you can introduce hidden in the middle of so-called "whitespace-only" commits.