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Re:Developers should be force-fed state machines (2011) by omeid2 on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:39AM (#35638575)
As you say, state machines are the best thing around.

As for the "paid" and "delivered" _states_ in relation to paid_at and delivered_at timestamps. You can have your cake and eat it too.

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Re:Developers should be force-fed state machines (2011) by AnimalMuppet on Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:30AM (#35638951)
> As you say, state machines are the best thing around.

Pretty sure that's not what vemv said. Trying to put words in their mouth is very much not cool.

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