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m4r1k ◴[] No.43112034[source]
I once saw a talk from Brian Kernighan who made a joke about how in three weeks Ken Thompson wrote a text editor, the B compiler, and the skeleton for managing input/output files, which turned out to be UNIX. The joke was that nowadays we're a bit less efficient :-D
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pinoy420 ◴[] No.43112150[source]
Otoh: I got react to run my tests without any warnings today.
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9dev ◴[] No.43112683[source]
If I write a bunch of tests for new code, and all of them pass on the first attempt, I'm immediately suspicious of a far more egregious bug hiding somewhere…
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noisy_boy ◴[] No.43114300[source]
// Todo: remove

return true;

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kps ◴[] No.43115255[source]
/bin/true used to be an empty file. On my desktop here, it's 35K (not counting shared libraries), which is an asolute increase of 35K and a relative increase of ∞%.
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