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moron4hireyesterday at 7:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

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Smaug123yesterday at 8:20 PM

To answer your question, although I would certainly have preferred you to phrase your comments less insultingly: this project would otherwise never have got to a state where it could find bugs. I am not paid to write this code, and it would have taken far more years than I would have been willing to spend.

It's not actually unheard of for people to pay other entities to build their passion projects. For example, I visited [Eltham Palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltham_Palace) last weekend, which was not in fact built entirely by the two Courthaulds who commissioned it.

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SeanAndersonyesterday at 7:55 PM

because some software engineers enjoy shipping usable software more than writing the code needed to do so?

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