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by tessierashpool 1076 days ago
as long as we’re designing the ideal experiment for someone else to do, let’s throw in the commit messages as well.

I wouldn’t be surprised if code quality goes up with comment curses and down again with commit message curses.

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My favorite infamous example being the MPV C locale commit: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

You can really feel the author's rage at the state of the world.

That's a great rant, and not unjustified. I feel with the author.