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by burade 1916 days ago
>When you're writing a library

99% of developers are working in boring business software with 2-3 other developers.

99% of codebases will be touched by maybe a dozen developers in its entire lifetime.

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Did you make up those numbers out of your head? When you don't refer to a specific (Meta)analysis you can still make up numbers from guessing but if you do you should give intervals e.g replace 99% by most