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ozimtoday at 12:50 PM1 replyview on HN

That's what we do in closed source corporate code.


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CatMustardtoday at 1:32 PM

"Hi, I see you're the owner of this 6000-line mess of a component, could you answer some questions for me?"

"I don't own it, I didn't write it, and I don't understand it even slightly. I just made a one-line bug fix for one function in it a year ago and nobody has touched it since, so my name is on top of the git history."

"Cool, so as the owner could you tell me..."

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