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Cake day: August 30th, 2023

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  • Sounds like you need to answer back with numbers.

    Calculate how much time is needed for writing tests.

    Then calculate how much time was spent writing ineffective code, then add the amount of time it took to rewrite that same code.

    I guarantee the latter amount will be more.

    Bonus points if you can calculate the amount of money lost from an unavailable application, then add in the amount of money lost from the confidence your customers are losing in that app.



  • Imagine if a trumpet cleaning supply company wrote up an article about the importance of cleaning your trumpet regularly, and somewhere in the article they mentioned something like, ‘oh and you can use your trumpet cleaning spray to clean your trumpet’. Does this mean the information is incorrect? No? Any more or less valid than some dude named Craig on YouTube showing you how he cleans his trumpet? I don’t think so?

    Yeah it’s an ad, but it’s an informative ad from an organization that obviously has some passion for the area of their product. I think it would actually be kind of weird if a company that does version control had absolutely no documentation on what version control best practices are.