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4) Sometimes it's better to fail fast and try again than spend time writing extensive error handling and retry logic.


But unless you inform the audience of those times, they will continue being ignorant of when to use your advice, as if you'd never given this advice at all.


As a beginner, until I heard that advice a little while ago it hadn't occurred to me. I disagree advice that doesn't clarify everything has no value. It transforms an unknown unknown into a known unknown that you can fiddle around with or Google further to learn about.




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