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> The engineering is top notch. Do you still think so after reading this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18

• stareatgoats 5y ago
  Read it, and well sure it is a challenge to work on an old codebase, and you need to jump through a few hoops that you don't need in pristine projects. Something tells me this guy wasn't able/willing to make the effort. (Could be a language problem, naming a "bug" a "bag" for example, u and a are not even close on the keyboard).
  • samhw 5y ago
    > (Could be a language problem, naming a "bug" a "bag" for example, u and a are not even close on the keyboard). I think this is reading far too much into nothing. He writes 'bug' correctly about 5 times. I'm not an expert in psycholinguistics, but I suspect there's a phenomenon where you can mangle your internal pronunciation of the word and hit the wrong vowel.
    • stareatgoats 5y ago
      > I think this is reading far too much into nothing. Could be. I could have left that somewhat tenuous side note out, my argument doesn't rest on it.
  • aiisjustanif 5y ago
    Though I agree that old codebases are a particular challenge, picking on word confusion is unnecessary. Even if minutiae is important in a legacy codebase. Dyslexia is a real thing. So are linters thankfully.