small mind: the code is self documenting medium mind: the documentation documents the code large mind: comments document the code galaxy mind: comments AND REGRESSION TESTS document the code
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8/ it's possible that the huge bit array is now being constructed differently / poorly. ...but it's also possible that the very complicated chromosome-like code that scans the RNA and constructs proteins (in this analogy) doesn't work perfectly. SO. Regression tests.
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9/ But, the good news: I like writing regression tests.
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10/ well OBVIOUSLY we document the regression tests, Lana!https://twitter.com/wraithburn/status/1141802407250280453 …
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11/ Regression tests written. The "scan the bitstring" code works fine, it seems, even in my new 64 bit edit. ...so perhaps the code that constructs the bitstring got broken? That's what I'll be testing tomorrow, 8am.
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The expectation that something is a certain way ("X is 32 bits") lurks deep in places undiscoverable by mere examination. This code was written as a piece, not merely the product of but the content of a single mind. It will brook no changes not of its maker's hand.
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Your present colleagues have no more business rewriting his code than your farmhands have reorganizing your toolshed. They will need to erect a new shed, preferably before the old one collapses.
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