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I'm sorry what is the question?

• dwedge 8mo ago
  I think they were nitpicking the term "reverse engineering" which is fair if the source is available
  • selcuka 8mo ago
    The source was available, but with cryptic variable names and (apparently) no or little comments: > Ward mentioned that the biggest bottleneck was the cryptic variable names—short abbreviations that were common in old-school programming but made the code nearly impossible to follow. > "He not only commented everything," Ward marveled, "he went through every single line of code and renamed every single variable for me in about three days. I think it's still fair to use the term "reverse engineering".
  • baq 8mo ago
    Meh, every time a new engineer joins a large project onboarding is actually reverse engineering, with luck assisted by original authors.