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by d0mine 744 days ago
How do you learn anything in the space of software engineering? In general, there are many different problems and even more solutions with different tradeoffs.

To avoid spending hours on fixing broken environments after a single "pip install", I would make it easy to rollback to a known state. For example, recreate virtualenv from a lock requirements file stored in git: `pipenv sync` (or corresponding command using your preferred tool).