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You Have to Break It.

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Re: You Have to Break It.

#11
Did this yesterday ... then I realized why more people (including myself) just don't bother.

I started on what should have taken 1 hour of work to do at 6pm... 7 hours later, I was almost done ... It threw off my entire schedule and destroyed my plans for today (I'm usually up at 6am, got up today at 11).

So yeah ... fear of breaking the software isn't unfounded.

Re: You Have to Break It.

#12
This happens to me all the time when I am venturing into new territory with a language or framework I have little to no experience with and only the docs to guide me.

I can be 100% certain I found out what caused my bug, or how my code should really work. But I am iffy about taking out the superstitious and useless changes I made while I should have probably walked away for a bit... Changes that didn't help but didn't break anything either.

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