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Comment on Ask HN: How do I help a colleague who introduces a lot of typos?

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Systems and processes are good, but if the individual doesn't want to help make it better that is a different but related problem. Testing locally, checking work...that's the behavioral part of this he _can_ control. You can't force him, but might be able to encourage it, not by calling someone out in a code review/etc but privately discussing some local validation they could do. Also, I'm betting the "typos" aren't for corpus words but config strings like swmn0023094 or server names or whatever. That might be more of a custom dictionary type or DSL solution to check values against valid constant values.

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