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Without studying the minified code I wouldn't assume malice just yet, this could be just an inexperienced developer trying to lazily fix some browser-specific b
by enlyth 3y ago
Without studying the minified code I wouldn't assume malice just yet, this could be just an inexperienced developer trying to lazily fix some browser-specific bug, or something that accidentally made it to production like you say
- vanderZwan 3y agoYou think they let inexperienced developers touch the YT code base without proper code review? Even if that were the case, which is an extremely charitable assumption, that itself would be malice in my opinion.
- londons_explore 3y agolol This reply is for everyone who has ever worked on the codebase...
- ozim 3y agoShould be: LOL LGTM
- sapiogram 3y ago> You think they let inexperienced developers touch the YT code base without proper code review? Yes
- ric2b 3y agoYouTube is way too stable for that to be the case.
- enlyth 3y ago> You think they let inexperienced developers touch the YT code base Uh, yes? We were all inexperienced at some point. Just the linked file is like 300k lines of unminified code, I doubt it's all written by PHDs with 20 years of experience
- xxs 3y agoSome would argue that owning a PhD degree does not necessarily guarantee half decent engineering skills.
- vanderZwan 3y agoIt's the "without proper code review" part that I consider malice, not being inexperienced.
- xxs 3y agoAs the saying goes: "we like naked girls, not naked sleep". Even the interns should know that, naked sleep is just bad - not fixing anything.
- asddubs 3y agothere is such a thing as overextending the benefit of the doubt, to the point that malicious actors will abuse it.
- kevincox 3y agoIt could even just be a timeout as part of retry logic or similar. A lot of people seem to be saying that there is no reasonable reason to have a `sleep` in a production application. But there are many legitimate reasons to need to delay execution of some code for a while.