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by Cthulhu_ 2116 days ago
I've inherited a codebase that seems to have taken this article to heart. It uses random unnecessary abbreviations, reuses variables like "i" within the (function) scope (JS) of >1000 line functions, it's got some 15K line files, comments that mean nothing, copy / paste everywhere, it just goes on.