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People who code for a living: how much of the code you've written in your career has ended up getting thrown away before anyone used it?

(Boost for reach, if you'd be so kind)

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This isn't an abstract thought experiment. If causal consistency is broken in the #WorldFabric timeline (which is like a sandboxed environment that apps run in) the practical effect is that the same app run from different vantage points (i.e. user positions) could converge on different results. The timeline has a "base state" that's ~200ms in the past, and when hashes don't match in the base state those objects get redownloaded in full. If something internal to the system can break causal consistency then it'd be like having 300ms of latency in an app with crappy networking. A very bad look when the whole point of the system is smooth networking.

For people who use Github and Slack together, do you have a workflow getting Github notifications in Slack that's too disruptive?

Anything that doesn't send email notifications, really.

I find I mostly process Github notifications at github.com/notifications but it feels like I should be getting a notification somewhere else, too.

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