Stop Hardcoding Your Timeouts
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Stop Hardcoding Your Timeouts was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Nov 2, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 80 checks on 3 different days. Its best position was #3 of 25, reached on Nov 3, 01:21 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 4, 11:51 UTC.
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If you _actually fucking test timeouts properly_, you'll quickly (ahem) realize why they need to be injected instead of hardcoded!
I do actually appreciate go's new timetravel testing; with some setup you can make time fast forward under the condition that all other threads are blocked, then you can even test multi-minute timeouts in under a second total. Just fast forward time to "just before timeout", check there is none, then forward past the…
https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/issues/278 (by someone else) quite ridiculous—just skim its first two comments, absurd amounts of unnecessary detail and a preposterous solution, all very obviously slop. All that needed to be said was “cloning repositories can take arbitrarily long, so putting a 60 second…
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