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		saagarjha on Feb 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug... I will note that it doesn’t actually take all that much reverse engineering experience to be able to recognize most algorithms if you how they work “in code”.

mlyle on Feb 17, 2020 [–]

If they're inlined and optimized, it's often hard to tell where they begin and end... and if anything else is interleaved into the beginning or end.

saagarjha on Feb 18, 2020 | [–]

Hard, but not impossible. Usually the really annoying bit is if it ends up being split across multiple functions with stuff in between.

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