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submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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// What is here was a dependency for us.// This is a warning of a breaking change.// The change is in a particular package// it is forked// the fork is here// and deep in the dependencies.// The fork is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. // The danger is to the velocity, and it is tech debt.// The form of the tech debt is an emanation of shell scripts.// The tech debt is paid only if you substantially// depend on this workaround.// This code is best removed and left unused.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Over at invisible-island.net:

Part of why xterm's internals are so horrifying is that it was originally intended that a single process be able to drive multiple VS100 displays. Don't hold this against Mark; it isn't his fault.

And startx:

# This is just a sample implementation of a slightly less primitive interface than xinit.
# …
# Site administrators are STRONGLY urged to write nicer versions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Found deep in the Linux networking code years ago: // this code is too ugly to live, but I don’t have time right now