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Be Aware of the Makefile Effect

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431 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 11 Jan 25 04:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ruuda ◴[11 Jan 25 06:53 UTC] No.42663877[source]▶
I think LaTeX is the poster child of this. Nobody writes a LaTeX preamble from scratch, you always copy your previous document and tweak it.
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1. BlueTemplar ◴[11 Jan 25 12:51 UTC] No.42665522[source]▶
I guess that there's a very important difference between copying something that you understand (or at least the details of which, like syntax, you can easily remember - here comments become important),

and copying something that not only you do not understand, but you were not the one that made it in the first place, and you never understood it !