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> Humorous given that both webkit and from that Chromium are largely comment free. What nonsense are you arguing again?

Seriously?

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/ipc/ipc_chan...

  // If the channel has already been created, then we need to send this
  // message so that the filter gets access to the Channel.

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/ipc/ipc_chan...

And so on.

> "Worked on" in HN parlance means "I did a coop term and wrote some test cases for some irrelevant little utility".

Please go back to Reddit.

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An enormously complex rendering and JavaScript engine. Some laughably irrelevant, trivial comments. Quite a solid proof you have there.

Those comments are trivial and irrelevant?

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. I hope I never get stuck cleaning up your messes, but chances are that someone as intellectually lazy as you -- if not you -- will leave me an uncommented code base to maintain.

The fact that you actively advocate intellectual laziness is distressing.

Intellectually lazy? That's a mighty big term for someone like you.

Further it's utterly astonishing that you would equate writing clear and non-ambiguous code rather than nebulous code of uncertain purpose -- like the example Chromium code you linked -- is "intellectual laziness". That you hold good coding as deficient compared to lazy commenting is hardly surprising given your comments.

Failing to document code is to the detriment of future maintainers. Anyone that claims their code is clear and ambiguous without comments is lying to everyone, including themselves, as a means to justify their intellectual laziness.

"I don't need to comment" is really "I don't want to document my work because that's boring and I'm much too smart to need to do that".

You're not that smart. If you were, you'd realize just how dumb everyone is, and thus, just how necessary comments are.

Hey flatline3, I feel your pain, but it's time to stop feeding the troll.

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