Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by anon4 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:15AM (#11166135)

As someone who has seen several LARGE commercial software projects, there is a definite gradation from "it's hard to comprehend these layers of abstraction, but after a few days I kind of understand how they interact" to

    // X - uncommented on 1.2.03 to fix bug
    // Y - commented again on 3.2.03 because it broke stuff
    // if (condition)
    {
       ... logic here, half of it commented out ...
    }

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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by cakes on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:35AM (#11166239)

Of the same opinion, there is sort-of the architecture "mess" where it is complicated and you may just have to spend some time learning and/or see some hiccups because large projects are complicated and then there is the 15 year old code base where _everything_ feels hacked/tacked on.

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