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All Not so Profound Truths about Programming, page 4:

C++: Thoughts on Dealing with Signed/Unsigned Mismatch

posted March 6, 2018 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“we’re just narrowly avoiding a disaster without understanding how close we were”
Another Quote:	“there is a chance that intuitive::lt MIGHT be a good thing to make behaviour of our C++ code to correspond better to our-expectations-when-we’re-reading-it”
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posted February 27, 2018 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“the bug MUST be reproducible”
Another Quote:	“did you know that in a case of a signed integer overflow, compiler is allowed to generate code which formats your hard drive?”
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posted February 20, 2018 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Hey, if all I have is lemons – I have no choice but to make lemonade out of them!”
Another Quote:	“if reproducible serious bugs are ignored for many months, it indicates one of three possibilities”
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posted January 18, 2018 by Anastasia Stefanuk

Quote:	“Descriptive style takes its roots from the «chain» pattern, in which the methods enclosed in classes return some reference on themselves.”
Another Quote:	“Business-driven testing or BDT allows non-technical members of any development team a stronger involvement in the development process by allowing them to comprehend test cases and even create their own. “
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posted October 31, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“The point of Super-Replica is that it is a replica Slave DB which is larger than original Master DB”
Another Quote:	“this “don’t write some HISTORICAL data to Master DB” approach can easily allow to reduce the load on the Master OLTP DB by a factor of 2x-3x”
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posted October 24, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“there are still several Big Fat Reasons™ to use DIY replicas”
Another Quote:	“With the Replication Messages described above, it is ok to apply Replication Messages to Slave DB which is newer than exactly necessary.”
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posted October 17, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“if we can commit several transactions at the same time – RDBMS needs to fsync() our DB logs to physical disks only once”
Another Quote:	“if going our preferred way of single-writing-DB connection – make sure NOT to use RDBMS-level Group Commit”
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