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Re:Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what shou... by flukus on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @08:38PM (#17823560)
Is there a chapter on what to do if your coworkers don't initialize variables? I just inherited a steaming pile of legacy where they didn't and I'm struggling to understand how they got it to run at all. At least I'm starting to understand why we held off on the spectre patches.
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Re:Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what shou... by lexicality on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:41AM (#17825342)
Not explicitly, no, but it does have some techniques for reading code that might help?

Do you mean global variables? I guess it entirely depends on what language and framework you're using, but trying to refactor things to have less global state is generally for the best.

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