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		_whiteCaps_ 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at t... Also known as the Madman Muntz theory of Engineering :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntzing

qingcharles 8 months ago [–]

I never knew there was a name for this :)

When I was a demo coder my artist friend would just haphazardly go through all my assembler code and snip random lines out until it stopped working to improve performance.

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