Rich Felker on Nostr: I get some frustration/pushback for insisting programmers really *check the specific ...
I get some frustration/pushback for insisting programmers really *check the specific property that matters* when writing code that works across various systems, rather than hard-coding "platform X needs special handling Y".
Today I came across a place where I'd made myself do that, and it really paid off.
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