> a three-ring binder called the Prompt File, stuffed with printouts of the dozens of tables in the system, and religiously updated anytime anyone changed anything of significance.
Hey, at least they had documentation.
Hey, at least they had documentation.
Necessity is the mother of documentation.
The other had ops like '74' which were coordinates of the key which activated the given function.
Getting the full screen of the ZX Spectrum surely spoiled me :)
But sometimes I'll flip through it and notice:
- mis-spelled table names, usually duplicate tables
- missing FKs
- missing unique keys, most commonly for early RoR apps
- developer-specific EAV tables with 1 row.
The benefit always outweighs the dead trees, but printing once a year is typical. Back in the day, more frequenctly on 25-line terminals where there was too much scrolling.
Note that the verdict by HN moderator dang talks of a regular ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25011268
Moderation does not care about right or wrong, truthful or fake, moral or immoral.
Moderation cares about harmonic or controversial. There isn't even a "group think", as that would imply direction and consistency.