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		Marazan 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation The reassignment of a live IATA code between two airports was absolutely cluster fuck level. This had never happened before. Like, you don't even _change_ the IATA code of a live airport. To switch them was a huuuuuuuuuge assumption breaker for the industry.

bombcar 3 days ago [–]

The biggest falsehood programmers believe is “a data restriction or programmer difficulty will have any affect on management decisions”.

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