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08-15 | 4 years ago

In this blog post, senior engineer Rachel talks nonsense about normalization and promotes a bafflingly complicated solution as superior to a simple one, without identifying the actual fix, which appears to have happened accidentally.

In other words, with enough empathy and patience, a clueless rookie can grow into a clueless senior engineer!

Rachel usually makes more sense than that. That's why people are nitpicking implementation details.

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mixmastamyk|4 years ago

Hah, pretty accurate and kinda funny, but could be nicer. I still make mistakes.

08-15|4 years ago

Meanwhile, Rachel posted an update. Apparently, the whole section about how "the system got reworked" doesn't describe the proper solution, but her own (Rookie Rachel's) attempt to fix it.

And in that context, everything makes sense.