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Re:Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business by nothrabannosir on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @07:42AM (#10463836)
"Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up"

This is the most frustrating thing about uncommented sleep() calls sprinkled through a codebase.

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Re:Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business by lsaferite on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @08:27AM (#10463997)
Commit history maybe?
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Re:Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business by Coincoin on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @08:56AM (#10464116)
Yeah, until you realize dozens of them have been peppered across the code base in a desperate attempt to "fix concurrency issue".
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Re:Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business by ceejayoz on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @08:58AM (#10464125)
"fix" "trying again" "revert" "will it work?"
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Re:Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business by jzwinck on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @08:55AM (#10464114)
"Fixed bug."
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