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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why are we using magic strings for behavior?

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Feel free to fork my comment. 

[–] Tja@programming.dev 11 points 3 days ago

Does Santa accept PRs?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's an ENUM and other people have to read this fucking codebase too, Brian!

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've a DBA who would insist on this being in a dimension table and using a foreign key constraint instead of just a fucking string

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

I like your DBA!

Users probably don't.

[–] djmikeale@feddit.dk 10 points 3 days ago

He used to have an is_nice bool but consultants convinced Santa it isn't future proof enough to capture the nuances of kids behaviour in today's world, such as "nice but always is really smug about it". But the consultants kept making PowerPoints instead of updating the backend, so now Santa also has added a new value to behaviour: "consultant-like"