• jtrek
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    There’s also the class of comments that explain strange business decisions.

    # Product guy said to return January 1st if the user doesn't have a birthday on record

    Kind of arbitrary but someone with decision making power decreed it.

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      Kind of arbitrary but someone with decision making power decreed it.

      Here, under protest is this code. Every time the user doesn’t have a birthday, we return January 1st. Do we really mean that?