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		bcrosby95 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TODOs aren't for doing Most commit messages are bad, but commit messages are a terrible TODO list.

sublinear 3 months ago [–]

You're right they are a terrible TODO list, but old comments in the code are worse because you don't have as much context to work with.

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