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by belZaah 102 days ago
The weird thing is the way it’s trash. It breaks weird things no dev should ever have to touch. At one point Excel left horizontal lines on screen, when scrolling. Bullets and numbering just straight up refuses to restart numbering. It _worked_ why did you break it? Who gained what out of you breaking it?
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> It _worked_ why did you break it? Who gained what out of you breaking it?

This applies to so much of modern software it's not even funny.

Because the one thing about bugs that is universally true is that developers intentionally create them?
where I work, we're not allowed to merge them. we test every change, and we review everything to make sure there are no regressions in all the obvious features. scrolling through our webpage will never break in production, because we use people with a full set of eyes to check before merge.
I believe you but I've literally not worked at a single place that puts that much scrutiny on PRs and I've been working as a professional programmer for 20 years.
I did luck out with the $current_job. Software engineering is a tool to do the job right. I'd hate to work somewhere where software is the product.