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Have you ever tried making changes to a large, incredibly complex codebase with zero comments? Sometimes the changes you make don't have the expected results.
by hotpotamus 4y ago
Have you ever tried making changes to a large, incredibly complex codebase with zero comments? Sometimes the changes you make don't have the expected results.
- mcculley 4y agoThat sounds like an argument in favor of research.
- dalmo3 4y agoAlso, stateful code, no staging environment, no undo commit, prone to fatal runtime errors...
- svnt 4y agoYou’ve never made a change to such a codebase that was generated by a massively parallel evolutionary computer running for billions of years. You could just as easily make the argument that there is probably no body of data more stable than existing genomes.