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How to spot a coders comment

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We started off with quite a well-commented application. Since we offshored, our offshore friends' favourite trick is when we need something that's similar but not quite the same as a bit of existing code (e.g. a stored procedure), they copy and paste, and modify everything...except the comments, which remain identical to where they copied it from and tell you nothing about the new code. This is now all over the codebase, every so often if I see one I try to fix it, but it's a losing battle...

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