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Not a gotcha, just trying to understand how your setup works
Cars are defacto illegal to operate in public. You must have a license to drive one.
You can’t yell fire to scare people.
You can’t buy a gun without some kind of check, or at all depending on location.
Civilians can’t operate jet engines with a variable nozzle size.
>I shared a trick on slack every day with the engineering team
Like imagine you have a few different classes of things A,B,C so instead of checking if the thing you're handling is an A,B,C you have like a shared interface across all and can call Thing.do_it or whatever.
Still branching conditionally but it's passing it off to language features instead of code you have to write.
What I'm saying is I am not a jerk and actually do care about my coworkers, however I also don't want a bunch of noise in a chat app I have to use to do my job.
One is actually helping and the other is making yourself more visible to mgmt for promotions.
I would find that annoying, however to not be seen as a jerk I wouldn't say anything.
we built cathedrals without a detailed understanding of load calculations and material properties