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> A senior engineer writes comments that explain why the code isn't written in another way.

And C-level engineers write a comment "X hours have been wasted on refactoring this code. Should you decide following the example of your priors, please increment this counter."

Sometimes, even what appears to be an utter hack job actually is the best you're gonna get.






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