Too many rules?

Rules in programming can be extremely helpful, especially on a team. But is it possible to go too far with rules? We discuss a couple recent scenarios where we could have made a rule, but decided not to.

• 00:00 I like rules
• 01:20 Maybe going too far with rules - the scenario
• 03:05 Bug explanation
• 05:03 A tangent on test setup
• 06:30 A possible rule to prevent this bug
• 07:17 Why this rule went too far
• 08:50 We still want to fix it, just not now
• 09:45 Another example with syntax and code standards
• 12:53 Silly bit

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