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by JKCalhoun 1624 days ago
A team I worked with had a fun little habit I have since borrowed: you add a "BOGUS" comment next to the offending line. Sort of like:

// BOGUS: assuming 'x' will never be greater than 1024.

Sort of tells future engineers, yeah, I know it's shit.

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// I'm so sorry...

A comment I left that I am sometimes reminded of by ex-coworkers still at that company.