Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?

Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by pgaddict on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:49AM (#18460174)

I'm sure some of the difference (25M vs. 1.3M) can be attributed to code for Oracle features missing in PostgreSQL. But a significant part of it is due to careful development process mercilessly eliminating duplicate and unnecessary code as part of the regular PostgreSQL development cycle.

It's a bit heartbreaking at first (you spend hours/days/weeks working on something, and then a fellow hacker comes and cuts of the unnecessary pieces), but in the long run I'm grateful we do that.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by troels on Friday November 16, 2018 @07:04AM (#18468172)

> It's a bit heartbreaking at first (you spend hours/days/weeks working on something, and then a fellow hacker comes and cuts of the unnecessary pieces), but in the long run I'm grateful we do that.

The single hardest thing about programming, I'd say.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by ska on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:35PM (#18554876)

In many (most?) ways the best edits of code are the ones where you can get rid of lines.

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