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No, you just need to both understand how your system works and then clearly write down what it's doing and why. If projects like Postgres and SQLite and musl libc and the Linux ker…

Especially on teams where deviance has been normalized, and broken things are just expected. I've been bitten both ways before: is this an obvious mistake? Or the lynchpin holding …

"Oh yeah, those tests are always flaky. We just rerun them until they pass. Or we turn them off. I mean, Jeff wrote them like three years ago and he quit last year, so..." I'd rath…

Erm, this is what docs are for. Like a man page, where it'll give you function signatures and return types and explain what those functions do. Unit tests are not that, and they sh…

What's stopping someone from reading the code, studying it deeply, and then writing down what it does? That's what I do, but I see people struggle with it because they just want to…

Ah yes, states' rights being used to justify treating people poorly. Famously, this has never happened before ever.

Please stop spamming this conspiracy theory. It devalues the discourse. Thank you.

Ah yes, "we can't do anything before an election", despite it always being just before some election, and also it's totally okay when one party does it.

A lot of people's salaries depend on screwing over customers.

I've seen people argue for the most heinous shit here without so much as a slap on the wrist. HN isn't above politics, it's just above the _wrong_ politics.

Because a chargeback is for some sort of fraud, and as scummy as crap like this is, it usually doesn't count. It's not a universal "I want this charge to stop" tool. A human WILL r…

You're overthinking it. If there's any confusion, it will go to court, and reasonable humans will decide that, actually, the form being in a filing cabinet in the basement isn't ac…

If it does, then "record profits" sure is a bizarre way to punish them.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted (jk I know exactly why). HN will have an entire goddamn Bollywood dance number around the fact that big corporations screw people over, and go…

I don't know about anyone else, but I, for one, cannot wait to hear from the Supreme Court about how unconstitutional this is for some made-up reason that just so happens to benefi…

Well yeah, and people aren't clamoring to sign up for my new Face Puncher 9000 robot, either. I wonder why.

"Everyone who doesn't want to do business with me is blackmailing me! Also they're very mean!"

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This shouldn't be surprising anymore. This has happened every week since 2010. This is the VC cycle, and it happens over and over and over and over and over again. In fact, I'm sur…

This is what happens when massive amounts of free money slosh around courtesy of ZIRP. Question is: will everybody rush to join whatever new darling graces the front page? Or will …