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Re:// If this happens, I am going to quit and become a barista by throwawayfinal on Monday February 05, 2018 @01:55PM (#16311012)
More than once, cutesy comments of frustration have led me to inspect something for side effects and avoid them.
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Re:// If this happens, I am going to quit and become a barista by kakwa_ on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:04AM (#16314993)
Could it not be done through conventional ways like TODO or FIXME?
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Re:// If this happens, I am going to quit and become a barista by throwawayfinal on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:48PM (#16319433)
Sometimes there's not something to fix or do, for example, in pthread-using code. "Just be really fucking careful or we'll all cry a lot."
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