He used to have an is_nice bool but consultants convinced Santa it isn’t future proof enough to capture the nuances of kids behaviour in today’s world, such as “nice but always is really smug about it”. But the consultants kept making PowerPoints instead of updating the backend, so now Santa also has added a new value to behaviour: “consultant-like”
Why are we using magic strings for behavior?
Feel free to fork my comment.
Does Santa accept PRs?
It’s an ENUM and other people have to read this fucking codebase too, Brian!
I’ve a DBA who would insist on this being in a dimension table and using a foreign key constraint instead of just a fucking string
He used to have an is_nice bool but consultants convinced Santa it isn’t future proof enough to capture the nuances of kids behaviour in today’s world, such as “nice but always is really smug about it”. But the consultants kept making PowerPoints instead of updating the backend, so now Santa also has added a new value to behaviour: “consultant-like”