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Wait until you start working on multi-million line systems in companies where nobody - and I mean nobody - understands everything, and the original authors of pretty much every subsystem has since left the company; and you need to fix 20 critical bugs in the last week before the thing ships. Clues that are more high-level than the code can ever be start being really helpful.



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