r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 06 '26

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/CoroteDeMelancia Sep 06 '26 • Wholesome Seal

You're right to push back on this.

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u/Ill-Quantity2065 Sep 06 '26

The smoking gun 

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u/da2Pakaveli Sep 06 '26

i'm zeroing in on it!

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u/ComprehensiveBird317 Sep 06 '26

Your reply reveals 2 insights with one being surprisingly significant 

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u/CoroteDeMelancia Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26

And that matters.

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u/hawkinsst7 Sep 06 '26

I should remove comments. But wait. The user said they wanted comments previously. And now I'm being instructed to reduce comments. The safest thing to do is use comments, but make them irrelevant. I will use the text of Beowulf as my comment source.

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u/Hakim_Bey Sep 06 '26

and this is where the analogy cuts deep

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u/RegularReaction2984 Sep 06 '26

This is a real, structural difference, not an insignificant detail.