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10 points for tricking it. often times its not completely broken, but may have been written with different assumptions, be failing on an avoidable edge case, or
by convolvatron 9y ago
10 points for tricking it. often times its not completely broken, but may have been written with different assumptions, be failing on an avoidable edge case, or have an issue with a dependency.
knowing and deciding you can't reasonably fix it is a much better position to be in than shrugging and hoping it gets fixed in a later release, trying lots of versions or trying to refactor around it.