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Give Them the Button (michaelnygard.com)
2 points by wheresvic1 on April 22, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I'm a big fan of having automation enforce as many rules as possible, but mostly because the cost for a person to enforce a rule (overly simple example being tabs vs. spaces) from a relationship standpoint can be absurdly high.

I'm tired of wanting to be a stickler but having my coworkers hate me for it. Getting the machine to stand in to take the brunt of the push-back is fantastic.

I'm fairly skeptical of how one could automate the more complex points of expertise, however. What would a DRY enforcement mechanism look like? "Found copy/pasted code, please refactor" comment in PRs?




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