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by taneq 3438 days ago
And yet, by fixing any one of those, you'll probably break something else. Something that relies on the broken behaviour, or 'corrects' it.

Any bug in a large codebase that's older than a certain point becomes a feature. ;)

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And that's how we got Spacemacs.
> And yet, by fixing any one of those, you'll probably break something else.

That's an empirical claim and I doubt it's true. Sure, sometimes you'll break something else, but 50% of the time plus? I'm gonna need to see some evidence.