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What about the DRY principle?
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Looks like we do have an invalid route as it's showing yesterdays content.
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Are you mocking us, Remy?
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Also: nothing is older than yesterday's news.
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Also: nothing is older than yesterday's news.
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If you buy a loaf of bread today, tomorrow it will be yesterday's bread.
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TRWTF is TDWTF
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Nah, TRWTF is, as always, programmers.
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Is that a reference to Horst Evers?
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And Highly Paid Consultants, at the direction of incompetent Pointy Haired Bosses
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Eh, I take offense to that. We are often paid to do shitty work so that some middle manager can blame his mess on us :-P
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Well, if there's one article that should land in the wrong place, I guess this one is as good as any. Corrected.
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But was its route logged correctly?
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Writing the most direct code for a purpose is a Go idiom, so only the availability of a router makes this a WTF.
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Return nil? What's nil?
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https://go101.org/article/nil.html
It's like NULL, though not quite the same. In this context, though, it means much the same as "return NULL" would in C.
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Or, indeed,
return nil;in Pascal.Admin
It's a large river that flows through Egypt... Oh wait that's Niles. They just sound the same in French.
(j/k, /s, etc ... I'll see myself it now)
Addendum 2025-11-21 11:08: s/it/out
Addendum 2025-11-21 11:08: s/it/out
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s/it/out/g;
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I spy a pair of developers whose job performance metrics include lines of code written. Dev #2 was provably quite grateful dev #1 had missed some use cases, as it gave them the opportunity to bump their LOC count for the week/month up