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Re:Be likeable or get fired by Terr_ on Friday April 20, 2018 @07:25PM (#16889122)
The idiom that always comes to mind for me is "good fences make good neighbors."

In the long run ugly lines of code are so much better than a broken architecture or too much coupling.

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Re:Be likeable or get fired by hinkley on Friday April 20, 2018 @07:36PM (#16889160)
True. If the blast radius is small it only matters if you see the same three lines of code in twenty places.
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