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		eru on July 3, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How obsessive are you with your code? I do almost the exact opposite: I see that fixing minor flaws in the whole code base is a temptation, but I do not have enough time to do it. So I just polish everything that my edits touch (i.e. every function that is affected).

_tggb on July 4, 2010 [–]

...but I do not have enough time to do it.

Neither do I, really. I don't go back to change something around unless I do have time.

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