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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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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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Aug 14, 2019 at 14:59
I think it's only a matter of time before we have programming languages that hard enforce a standard formatting. For example, suppose a compiler only accepted formatted code when it's optimising.