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    John Backus‏ @backus Aug 14

    Throwback to when @dhh owned Reddit. • DHH added a bunch of helper methods • Reddit complained • DHH adds another useless helper just to make a pointpic.twitter.com/MDQE6Gzp2A

    12:17 PM - 14 Aug 2018
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      1. Mark Mohr‏ @cubsker1 Aug 14
        Replying to @backus @dhh

        still in the codebase....solid

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      1. @kethinov@mastodon.social‏ @kethinov Aug 14
        Replying to @backus @dhh

        i don't get why people complain about this stuff if it were frontend code, sure, eating even a bit of the client's resources for a developer convenience method is kind of an ugly tradeoff but this is rails it's server-side your server isn't gonna melt down over this

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      1. Lasse Rafn‏ @LasseRafn Aug 14
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        You're my hero, @dhh

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      1. DalSoft‏ @DalSoft Aug 14
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        good for dhh I've deleted all my posts on Reddit. If devs want to use or know about my libraries they can on GitHub or my blog. If they don't like what they see they can pick up a keyboard and start coding, if they like what they see I'm happy to have helped

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      1. Voigt Kampf‏ @change1ing Aug 15
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        I actually loved these helper methods when I first discovered them playing around with data in the console! ❤️rails

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      1. Daveyon Mayne  😻‏ @MirMayne Aug 14
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        Holy shit! I was just looking into "find_nth" method 😅

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      1. Juseph le Flexible‏ @alxgsv Aug 14
        Replying to @backus @dhh

        I can remember the day my colleague complained about this one. Years gone, I don't want to work with him again, but I think this commit is useful sometimes :-)

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      1. Business Decision Pikachu‏ @ActivistPikachu Aug 14
        Replying to @backus @dhh

        Those comments encompass a lot of what's wrong with programmers.

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      1. Alex Zhang‏ @alex_l_zhang Aug 14
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        It's rails style.

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