The best comment I ever got was someone proving my code wrong

I published a post with a retry helper in it. A budget guard, exponential backoff, the usual shape. It looked fine to me and it looked fine to the several people who read it. Then someone left a comment that had actually run it. They stubbed the clock, zeroed the jitter so the runs were deterministic, and reported two cases. With a 45-second... Weiterlesen