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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

had a co-worker once who called the variable holding the first record in a complicated workflow "rec1st" and the last record "reclst", unaware that in every font used by every code editor except his, a lowercase l and number 1 look identical.

i spent a day debugging that after he quit.

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