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Re:Friendly Attributes Pattern in Ruby by igouy on Sunday November 09, 2025 @06:37PM (#45870427)
> If you can't stop blowing your own foot off…

I can. It is, of course, those who worked on the project before me, that expressed their all-too-human over-confidence in their own abilities and judgement.

And then we would spend-a-weekend to rip-out the changes they'd made to Smalltalk system classes, that conflicted with the version upgrade.

(Something about the narcissism of small differences.)

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