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1. Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 12:21:24 UTC Dare Obasanjo

   A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.

   • Ari Turetzky (arit93@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 12:21:23 UTC Ari Turetzky

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     @carnage4life all that's missing is the post it note telling you to talk to someone who left 10 years ago about how to change the batteries in the working clock.

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   • Ari Turetzky (arit93@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 12:21:27 UTC Ari Turetzky

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     • Chris Palmer :donor:

     @fugueish @carnage4life 6 months later there would just be a solar powered digital clock duct taped over the second clock, and we'd have pretty awards hanging on our cubes. (what me cynical!? unpossible)

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   • Chris Palmer :donor: (fugueish@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 12:21:32 UTC Chris Palmer :donor:

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     • Ari Turetzky

     @AriT93 @carnage4life And this is why we all dream of a greenfield project to implement a sundial

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   • Eric G. (ericg@sanjuans.life)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 12:21:39 UTC Eric G.

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     @carnage4life I have been occasionally scolded for my 'messy' PRs that muck out disfunction, realign ancillary internal methods & data structures and/or otherwise embrace my inner Fowler. The PR diffs are ugly AF but some of them are things I am most proud of.

     To the topic: lately I feel sometimes our PR/user story approach encourages the employment of duck tape by encouraging change that fully satisfies stated requirements, makes for easy-to-read PRs, but loses the plot along the way.

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