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		Retra on Aug 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, wh... That doesn't exclude anything. Code can exist to pad resumes, feed paranoia, and bolster egos, manipulate people, or simply because someone can't admit their own mistakes. Anything can be a solution to a problem.

dwaltrip on Aug 24, 2018 [–]

Yes, those things do happen.

However, that isn't what I meant by the word "problem". I was talking about end-user problems.

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