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Jtsummers on May 11, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: My story on “worse is better” (2018)

If it's unclear, then it's poor code or poor documentation or both. Sane developers will provide a way to obtain default or common configurations rather than forcing you to figure out the 100 different tunable options.

lamontcg on May 11, 2022 [–]

It isn't one sane developer.

It is the aggregation of a dozen different developers each adding a knob to close a ticket/bug over the course of maybe 10 years.

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