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Re:Do something different for a week by nuclearnice1 on Sunday November 14, 2021 @09:33AM (#29217397)
How do you manage consistency with these experiments?

If I do 5 of these micro experiments in a year, do I have 10 weeks of code that idiomatically doesn’t match the rest of the codebase?

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Re:Do something different for a week by pseudoramble on Sunday November 14, 2021 @09:37AM (#29217418)
They do mention that it probably should not be applied to production code bases. I imagine it's intended to avoid that situation.

> Some of these should probably not be tried for the first time in a professional context where you work with other people in the same code repository, while others can. Use your judgment.

I could see the testing example still being of use in a prod code base though. If you find a useful technique and make useful tests, you can keep them. If they're not, remove them at the end of the experiment.

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