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		galimaufry 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mistakes engineers make in large established codeb... Sometimes it doesn't work and no one can tell.

forty 8 months ago | [–]

Sometimes it doesn't work, but fixing the mess is too expensive and we don't have time

bdangubic 8 months ago | [–]

how can that be possible?

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