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"Naming a length variable ‘payload’ is borderline sociopathic"


I think it further indicates that not enough review of the code was done before it was integrated. Dumb variable names like that should be caught at review time.


I suppose the lack of interested reviewers is a decent indicator of how many people/companies actually cared about the heartbeat feature.




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