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seagaia on Feb 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coding tricks of game developers

I think #15 - attacking a bug directly instead of going about it with patches (although possibly there could be a fine line between "direct' and using patches) can be especially relevant for anyone (even outside of games).

The CRC one, #16, was cute.

Natsu on Feb 11, 2012 [–]

I read that and was surprised that the solution wasn't changing it to use MD5 or some other hash, rather than a CRC.

I guess they didn't have time?

avar on Feb 12, 2012 | [–]

    > I read that [..] I guess they didn't have time

It says in the original post that the reason they didn't change the hashing algorithm was that they didn't have time.

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