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Sep 5, 2015 at 16:33
Really interesting to see that GitHub is allowing you to enforce tests pass before merging:
Protected branches and required status checks
Protected branches and required status checks
It’s all too easy to force push to the wrong branch, overwriting someone else’s changes with your own. Sometimes it results in losing work (unless you know how to undo…

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Go has an os.Root API that allows you to enforce all paths are subdirectories of a given root. It fixes users accessing foo/../../../etc/passwd and similar. Seems like a really nice solution for a relatively common problem.
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Oct 3, 2021 at 03:06
I occasionally see people debate whether important functions should occur first, or helper functions first. I've not seen it enforced though. It's hard to programmatically enforce. OCaml takes a side: you have to put helper functions first!
Nov 18, 2019 at 22:16
Apparently sqlite does not enforce foreign key integrity by default! That's incentive to use something else even for prototypes/small apps. https://stackoverflow.com/q/15301643/509706
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