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by acqq 2906 days ago
See also "the duck":

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1220...

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Hah, that is a great story.

Reminds me of ancedotes of devs intentionally wasting ram in old school console game development; locking it up in some obscure way; just so that at the 11th hour, you can remove it and claim "amazing optimizations". ;)