How I Fired Myself

Re:How I Fired Myself by danso on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:42PM (#5294020)

Heh. Another way I would say that is that "discretion is the better part of valor" And, to rip-off Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "cowardice is the better part of discretion"...in that if fear makes you judiciously check your backups and write tests, then that's not a bad thing at all.

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Re:How I Fired Myself by ritchiea on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:57PM (#5294092)

I believe developers need the courage to do what we feel is necessary and the paranoia to quadruple check our work and assumptions.

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Re:How I Fired Myself by Retric on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @04:48PM (#5295198)

Paranoia is often useful, but with a good enviorment, and tools it's rarely need. I find bad assumptions often cause the worst problems. Break things regularly and you end up with fewer assumptions about the code base / production environment which is a vary good thing.

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Re:How I Fired Myself by chris_mahan on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @07:35PM (#5296121)

I don't trust tools unless I wrote them myself, in which case I know there will be bugs in them.

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