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[06:17:33] <janrinok> kolie2, it sounds impressive.
[16:11:35] <kolie2> The 1:1 Perl port is always a nightmare, but differential testing is the only way to do it without losing your mind. There's so much implicit state and weird global behavior baked into old slashcode/perl setups that trying to clean it up while moving it to a new language is a trap. Better to let the new code be ugly and match the output exactly first. Once you have a couple hundred test cases passing 100%, you can actually rip into the
[16:11:40] <kolie2> refactoring without praying it doesn't drop random data on the floor.
[16:14:23] <kolie2> yea 10k stories on sn is crazy. that’s literally years of logging in every single day, hitting the queue, and cleaning out the backlog. the sheer amount of time and consistency to hit five figures on an editor queue is wild. congrats janrinok, seriously impressive dedication to the site.