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[bastawhiz]

Unfortunately it seems that in many places, that's pretty much what they're doing instead of doing any actual recycling. If you collect more than you're capable of processing, you inevitably just end up with an ever growing TO-DO pile.

The sad thing is, if you pretend to recycle instead of actually recycling, you're just a landfill operator. And landfills can be run profitably.

[AtlasBarfed → bastawhiz]

Isn't the entire landfill really a huge TODO anyway?

"We'll let some magic future AI figure this out. Meanwhile, we'll put dirt on it"

[mkoubaa → AtlasBarfed]

Not all TODOs are created equal. Example:

//TODO: Collisions are too common here. Implement a custom hashing function to improve the performance of this algorithm

//TODO: This class is 60k lines and has no tests. Replace it