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Re:Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from re... by cousin_it on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @10:49AM (#220796)
Skimming the code now. Looks clean and DRY, maybe a bit define-happy. Definitely better than I'd have written it.
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Re:Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from re... by gms on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @10:59AM (#220802)
Don't be so quick to make that judgment regarding your code - they had a lot of opportunities to iterate.
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Re:Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from re... by schtog on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @04:00PM (#221094)
It was writeen in LISP first so a lot of defs make sense if just porting the code.

What's wrong with a lot of defs anyway?

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Re:Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from re... by cousin_it on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @05:29PM (#221191)
Nothing wrong, it's a matter of taste. To me there are two kinds of code: "worker code" that does actual work, and "managerial code" that passes the buck. Lots of managerial code, deep call stacks, short extracted methods that are used only once etc. are heavy smells to me.

Not saying this is the case with the reddit codebase!

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