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That's the problem. You cannot.If the software has some kind of design to it, then at least parts are separate. But you still have to find each part.In general, you search for any old unique identifier that vaguely relates, then follow the call stack and types to find out the bits immediately relating to it.Its a fair bit easier in typed languages to chase this stuff around.But you also ask people, check version control logs, google log messages and framework entry points.If this sounds desperate, it's because it is!

Oh yes!Every now and again, I look at a piece of code, and think, “I don’t know who wrote that, but I want to climb their mountain, sit at their feet and learn for a year.” Then I check the source control log, and…it was me. On a very good day!And this is, of course, balanced by the times when I see code, recognise it, and think, “I can only have written that with a migraine¹, dosed up on strong meds, because there’s no other human excuse for that abomination!”I think every person who’s ever coded for a living, and cares enough about their work to be deeply self-critical, has these moments. It’s part of the joy and the burden that is development.(¹ Thankfully no longer a problem. Sodium valproate has turned me from a chronic migraineur, one who had migraine triggers or symptoms more days than not, into someone who’s had maybe two or three in a year.)

A no deal Brexit will automatically cause a new customs barrier in Ireland. Leaving the EU customs union, by definition, creates two customs systems out of one, which by definition, creates a geographic demarcation between them.The issue is what this means and it’s here that the confusion tends to start. Much of the discussion confuses three quite separate issues, which are as follows:customsenforcementborder“Customs” is a system that designates an area of permission, for goods circulating within that area. For goods arriving from outside, it describes the process for granting, refusing and verifying permission, and the method for collecting any duty.“Enforcement” is the method by which compliance with the rules of “customs” are verified, and by which violations of those rules are penalised.The “border” is an imaginary physical line that demarcates two customs systems.The debate around the Ireland border has been clouded by the following implied non-sequitur, one that’s based on a confusion between the above terms. The implied non-sequitur is:one of the ways of enforcing the rules of customs is to conduct such enforcement activity at the physical border. Therefore, the UK leaving the EU customs union will create a hard border in Ireland.Absolutely, one hundred per cent, untrue.Think of an analogy. My daughter’s school is thinking of banning mobile phones. How is it going to enforce that? Check every child arriving at the school subjecting them to a full body search? No. It won’t even do spot checks. It will use other methods.The phone ban will achieve much of its own objective, even if people break it. Pupils won’t be snapchatting in the open as their phone will have to remain hidden. Pupils will have their phone confiscated if they’re seen with it, or if a teacher hears a rumour that a given pupil has their phone with them.That’s broadly how customs work. The rules have to be enforced, but they are generally not enforced at the border. You register your goods online, electronically. When they arrive, the recipient logs on to the system, marks the good “received” and that’s it. That’s clearance. If there are any customs duties, they’re collected in the same way as VAT.There’s no necessity about what must happen at the physical border. There’s nothing that has to happen. The physical border is just a symbolic line that separates the two customs systems. Of course you can if you want to, locate law enforcement activity at the border, but you can just as easily locate it elsewhere. Law enforcement activity includes spot checks and the occasional search. These can be done at the origin, the destination or at any point in between, and in any manner deemed proportionate by the law enforcement authorities. Checks are generally intelligence led. If you’re checked, there’s a reason, one you’ll probably never know if you’re innocent. (In 2013 I was stopped by the police 10km into Italy after driving from Switzerland in a hire car. As soon as they discovered I was English, they sent me on my way. I later discovered the police were cracking down on some kind of tax fraud. Perpetrators would shuttle between Italy and Switzerland in hire cars to evade detection).The UK conducts physical checks on 2% of goods arriving from outside the EU. Not all of it is done at the physical border. There’s an inland customs inspection facility at Milton Keynes. Calais said that post-Brexit, it will check “about 1%” of goods arriving from the UK.To underline this, consider the following. My son is currently travelling with his mates in Scandinavia. Yesterday, he crossed the border from Sweden into Norway. Norway and Sweden are in different customs systems. Separating them is a customs border. Before he crossed, I asked him to describe what happens at the border, and to send pics. This is the pic I got of the point the boys crossed into Norway.I asked him some questions:Did you have to show your passport? Nope.Was there any kind of building? Nope.So what did you have to do at the border? We just carried on driving.So there was nothing to see? Just a sign that I think said “welcome to Norway” but it was in Norwegian so I couldn’t really tell.Was there anyone there at all? Not a soul.Look at that picture above. Somewhere in the road, is an imaginary line. A different customs system is in operation either side of that imaginary line. You can’t see it. You shouldn’t expect to see it. “Customs system” is an abstract concept that denotes no physical form, in particular. Likewise “border”.The idea that having a customs border means you have to locate law enforcement activity at the physical border is, as you can see, nonsense. All sides know this. On 19th July last year, Andrew Lilico wrote one of the clearest statements on this issue that I’ve seen. In “No one will impose border checks on Ireland, so let's stop pretending it's an issue” he wrote:Yesterday, Leo Varadkar, the Irish Taoiseach, said that the European Union has reassured the Irish Government “on many occasions” that “they wouldn’t require us to put in place a physical infrastructure and customs checks on the Border between Northern Ireland and Ireland”, even in what he termed the “doomsday scenario” of no Brexit deal.So the European Union will not impose border checks, even if there is no deal. Ireland will not impose border checks, even if there is no deal. And the UK government has guaranteed that it will not impose border checks, even if there is no deal.…Each of these three parties (UK, Ireland, EU) must have some concept or concepts of how they would make that work from their own economic point of view, since they’ve all guaranteed it will be so…This just demonstrates, once again, that the whole “Irish border issue” is a red herring. There’s nothing to “agree” with the EU regarding a “backstop” arrangement. If push came to shove, we’d all get by without imposing stop-and-check controls at the border.So to come full circle to the question, it asks whether a customs barrier between Northern Ireland and the Republic is a price worth paying for a no deal Brexit. A no deal Brexit will create a customs barrier (border?) — as will any form of Brexit that involves the UK leaving the EU customs union — but that in itself means nothing.Let’s not get too hung up here. There’s already a border in Ireland. It demarcates tax, currency, immigration and legal regimes. All create opportunities for exploitative loopholes, smuggling and so on. All of them are enforced. Imperfectly but well enough. Why should adding “customs” to the list of the border’s functions be the one thing that on its own, makes the border “hard”?The creation of a customs barrier is therefore on its own, not a price.Customs involves a system of rules and those rules must be somehow enforced. But there’s no rule that says they have to be enforced in a visibly intrusive way, at the physical border. And generally, in terms of global best-practice, they’re not.That’s why we can always confidently say that anyone who says a form of Brexit necessitates a hard border in Ireland, either has an agenda or simply hasn’t thought it through.