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rabbiteclair · 1 year ago

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PROGRAMMER OFFICE ETIQUETTE

✓ Acceptable: "This service is too large, and needs to be broken into smaller, more specialized services."

⚠ Potentially Acceptable: "I want to chop this service into pieces with a machete."

🛇 Not Acceptable, Apparently: "I want to chop this service into pieces with a machete and dispose of the chunks in half a dozen dumpsters so it's harder for the cops to investigate."

#as part of fixing this I learned that Spring will allow you to inject a reference to a class into that same class #this is of course a cyclical dependency also #a cycle of one entity #which exists in our code for some fucking reason #it's really relieving when I find that this kind of thing predates me #and thus I didn't sleepwalk through a code review and miss it

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