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by utensil4778 691 days ago
> Perhaps one reason is that OSS system programmers are washing their dirty linen in public; not a matter of "many eyes make bugs shallow", but that "any eyes make bad code embarassing".

I've committed sins in production code that I would never dream of doing in one of my published open source projects. The allure of " no one will ever see this" is pretty strong