<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I have some recipes too.<br>Statistically, the more you commit, the more you break.<br></div>The more you play with kernel parts, the more you break.<br></div>The more you play with tools used during upgrading, the more you break.<br>
</div>The more you move things across packages, the more you break (things have really improved, it used to be much worse).<br></div><div>The more you remove things (class/methods/instance variables etc...) the more you break.</div>
The more you rename things (class/methods/instance variables etc...) the more you break.<br><br></div><div>The fastest way to break things is having own idea how better graphics and morphic stuff should be.<br>Fortunately they often break before you ever got a chance to commit ;)<br>
<br></div><div>Changing your own leg while you are running is an art.<br></div>Some are really good at that sport, and I'd particularly liked the Colin's way for introducing environments.<br></div>If you look at changes, you'll see they described many circles, converting from SystemDictionary to Environment, back to SystemDictionary.<br>
</div>More a waltz than a sprint :)<br></div>So I'd say it's more about learning to dance than learning to program...<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/11/26 Chris Muller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" target="_blank">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Frank Shearar <<a href="mailto:frank.shearar@gmail.com">frank.shearar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Ah crumbs. OK, so while System-fbs.623 re-adds the method, the<br>
> existing method is still executing and so still fails. Hey, at least I<br>
> broke the update stream in a _new_ way. I tried issuing a config to<br>
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</div>No way man, I've broken it that way before. Oh, and don't forget my<br>
number recently that crashed the entire VM during update. *I* am the<br>
champion trunk-breaker!<br>
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