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1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected

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414 points henry_flower | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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m4r1k ◴[20 Feb 25 07:27 UTC] 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 ◴[20 Feb 25 07:50 UTC] No.43112150[source]▶
Otoh: I got react to run my tests without any warnings today.
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9dev ◴[20 Feb 25 09:13 UTC] 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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1. michaelcampbell ◴[20 Feb 25 21:59 UTC] No.43120829[source]▶
"never trust a test you've never seen fail." has kept me honest on more than one occasion.