The secret to getting off of calls you don't want to be on is to hang up in the middle of your own sentence. Only a maniac would hang up on themselves, so you must have gotten disconnected.
@rahulj51 Long comments. That only get longer, never shorter.
Corner cases addressed by adding branching (and more long comments) instead of rethinking the problem from scratch to find a general solution.
@_Felipe For the longest time I used to cp -r repo/ ~/tmp/repo before running a git command I wasn't sure would work the way I wanted. The manual way to undo.
@mmatthias@timClicks I think in part it's because languages take so much effort to learn and master. And we can't master one without really dedicating ourselves to it for an extended period of time, to the exclusion of other things we could have been learning.