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Wagthesam on April 30, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Waterloo Style

Funny how school lessons are not applied in the real world. I worked at a Waterloo unicorn, and we had a single refund function that either authorized or denied a refund, with dozens of parameters in the function header

akavi on April 30, 2023 [–]

It speaks to waterloo’s success that i don’t know which waterloo unicorn you’re talking about.

(Also worked at a waterloo unicorn. Codebase was the cleanest i’ve worked in, though perhaps excessively so, at the cost of product velocity)

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