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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015) by Gibbon1 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @10:28PM (#13120229)
My take on this is modifying the hard coded constant was not a functional change to the code base. Making it configurable was a functional change. One shouldn't make functional changes to old battle tested code unless you have to. If you do that it's just risk.
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