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		bapak 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long ... "// Divides by 2" is the worst kind of comment and the unfortunate part is that thanks to "AI autocomplete" these will only be merged even more often [raises hand for forgetting to delete this instruction]

lemoncucumber 4 months ago | [–]

My company has a style guide that every public type/method/etc. must have a comment and it results in a ton of these comments for trivial methods.

gopher_space 4 months ago | [–]

Part of the problem is that I’ve needed to add comments like that to someone’s clever one-liners (probably mine).

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