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“Even in the unending abyss that seals eternity at both ends, if your function could compile to run on stray vacuum energy and, given an input, it once returned some particular string, it should, given that input, return that string again. > [object Object]”

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“There will be cases where you try all the alternatives and can't find a better way to accomplish a business-critical change. This is okay! Just remember to document that you tried.”

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“Time dilation occurs at relativistic speeds, in the presence of intense gravitational fields, and while waiting for a webpage to load.”

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“Fig. 1.06: Initializing a variable to a new object, using a constructor, and realizing I was 30 years old when I wrote the first edition of this book, oh my god I am so old where did the time and my youth go!?”

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“At the risk of coming off as just very slightly negative: Flow Designer is the single greatest travesty ever visited upon humanity by itself.”

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“If your query returns a small number of rows but filters inefficiently, the database might still have to scan a large portion of the table and sort all those matching rows, which involves temporary memory, CPU, and often some significant amount of disk I/O - especially without an index on the field you're ordering by. Keep this in mind when considering whether to sort the results of your query using .orderBy() or .orderByDesc(), and be sure never to do so either willily, or nillily.”

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“If you notice any errorrs, omisions, blundurs, missed steaks mistakes… keep that sh*t to yourself.”

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