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munksbeertoday at 3:30 PM1 replyview on HN

Look at the state of the comments on that thread.

"This is completely false! Code is review is to ..." proceeds to state an opinion.

Sometimes, some days, I just look forward to not having to deal with programmer hubris ever again.


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nacozarinatoday at 6:08 PM

I remember a time when the sole point of code review was to answer the question 'is this change going to break any other work currently in-progress?' That was it.

it was expected to be a short-duration fixed-scope activity with a clear Go-NoGo answer, and you would have gotten roasted for digressing into navel-gazing and distracted conversations about armchair philosophy. if the change worked as-advertised and didn't break your work, then it was a 'go', get back to work...