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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by Operyl on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:58PM (#19131953)
Until they’re not. I’ve had some codebases where it took 3-4 hours to figure out that some really bizarre issue was really just a type bug. And I don’t consider myself a terrible debugger.
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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by shhehebehdh on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:12PM (#19148668)
Obviously. Any distribution will have some exemplars toward the tail.
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