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When you're working on a file that was last updated six years ago (lemmy.ml)
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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There’s a difference between ” it hasn’t changed because it doesn’t need to be changed” and ” it hasn’t changed because it’s impossible to predict the impact of any change, and no one wants to be responsible for things breaking”.

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 35 points 4 days ago

I was once spelunking a file that hadn't been touched in like 7 years, and there was a weird line where it was adding 2 to the index for seemingly no reason. The comment was like // Sam: not sure why this is off by 2 here. See ticket #12345 for discussion

Whatever issue tracking software it was referencing was no longer used, so that ticket was gone, and who TF is Sam?