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hansonkdtoday at 1:58 PM3 repliesview on HN

The comments that drive the most homicidal behavior are outdated or inaccurate comments rather than no comments.


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saghmtoday at 2:13 PM

Sure, but the proportion of code that drives homicidal behavior is heavily weighted towards non-comments. You're a lot more likely to piss off whoever inherits your code with the code that actually does something being bad or a lack of documentation than with comments.

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minrawstoday at 2:02 PM

Both can be true at the same time, we can be equal opportunity murderers who treat lazy verbosity and hippester terse code.

gowldtoday at 2:11 PM

Put your home address in the comments. Problem solved.

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