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Re:CUPID – the back story by burade on Sunday March 21, 2021 @02:14PM (#26532523)
>When you're writing a library

99% of developers are working in boring business software with 2-3 other developers.

99% of codebases will be touched by maybe a dozen developers in its entire lifetime.

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Re:CUPID – the back story by The_rationalist on Sunday March 21, 2021 @03:16PM (#26533038)
Did you make up those numbers out of your head? When you don't refer to a specific (Meta)analysis you can still make up numbers from guessing but if you do you should give intervals e.g replace 99% by most
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