Dear young developers. Listen to Markโ€™s story and heed my advice. Never, ever, ever put in log messages that express your frustration with the intention of removing them later.

Ever.

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โ€‹@that_rendle about the hardest problems in software: #CacheInvalidation & #NamingThings

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@bsletten Even snark in comments can come back to bite you. One example I heard of was a company selling its IP and during discovery purchaser ran into lots of comments about how crappy the quality of the code was. I donโ€™t remember if sale still happened, but do know there was egg on a lot of faces!