seems cozy. you can sit on the top of stairs but with your back against a wall, so there’s no one coming up behind you

Jōhatsu (…) refers to the people in Japan who purposely vanish from their established lives without a trace. (…)

mega piss ray from space

seems to me he’s trying to be more general than the Search example and considering that another complex project may actually have those problematic cases

i mean, he doesn’t even dismiss the patterns with code duplication, just lists it as a drawback, which agrees with his conclusion that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution