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[–] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Calling code self documenting is like saying that we eat animals because they're made out of meat.

[–] elouboub@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defo. It's bogus

[–] MattTheProgrammer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't want to over-comment though, otherwise people will just start ignoring all of them.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

in my experience all comments are ignored.