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[–] snowe 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They’re setting a variable to a function. Just use the original function. All thief does is obfuscate for literally no gain except character count.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I presumed it to be a standin for just directly using Math.max, since there's no nice way to show that in a valid code snippet

[–] snowe 7 points 1 year ago

well it's called Thief. They're stealing the function and making it look like they wrote it. hence max1.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's my reading as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds good to me