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Factor Mystic
Mar 20, 2006

Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Pretty good pilot, I hope the rest of the episodes can keep up the quality. A thing I greatly appreciated was that there was quite a bit of tech talk and not once did any character say "now what's that mean IN ENGLISH".

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Factor Mystic
Mar 20, 2006

Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

wooger posted:

Its not a nitpick, it's simply not possible to jack up source code like that as everyone uses version control systems that *at worst* could revert all the changes in moments.

There are countless details that can be there only to appeal to people in the industry, things like this undo that work.

Even if your DDL schema definitions are stored in source control, and even if you track your migrations in source control, an idiot doing a series of unmonitored migrations while on drugs could really wreck your app. Now imagine if you only stored the schema definitions in source control but not the migration scripts and someone wrecks it. You'd definitely tear your hair out migrating your schema backwards from what you currently have to what you originally had and it'd be really really irritating and time consuming but not necessarily impossible.

...which is basically what they showed on the show. It's not far fetched.

Factor Mystic
Mar 20, 2006

Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
The personal heater joke is basically the same as the "our app can get you rats" joke.

It doesn't matter if the app can safely procure rats, because this is a business showcase and on demand rat procurement is not a useful mass market startup idea.

Similarly, it doesn't matter if the personal heater can safely microwave your skin, because this is a business showcase and a heater that microwaves your skin is not a useful mass market startup idea.

Factor Mystic
Mar 20, 2006

Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

withak posted:

Ok so it is a vagina or a butterfly or a monster's face.

yes!!

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