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I've seen so many times people going all in on DRY not understanding that just as dangerous as duplication is _coupling_ - the inevitable result being some ungodly $COMPANY_NAME_common lib with a thousand dependencies, and usually only depped in a codebase for a config parser and a string helper. See also node_modules and left-pad.io.



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