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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by fhood on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:52AM (#18131459)
What about, log_panic("If we have somehow managed to hit this code path, this project if FUBAR. I would recommend giving up and starting over.")
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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by btschaegg on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:02AM (#18137539)
Somehow reminds me of Aliens:

  I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
:-)
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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by m_samuel_l on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @06:05PM (#18135231)
That's annoying but fine as long as it's unique and you can grep it in the codebase.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by fao_ on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:18PM (#18135615)
You can forgo something being unique if you just append line and file information to the log. Literally any logging framework (even homerolled ones) should give you this by default.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by fhood on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:00AM (#18140486)
yup
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