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Re:Red Flags Signaling That a Rebuild Will Fail by konschubert on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:57AM (#17512727)
> Just a couple of devs whose job it is to try and rebuild your thing from scratch.

That may be good value for big established corporates, but for startups and smaller companies I don't think it is.

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Re:Red Flags Signaling That a Rebuild Will Fail by Djvacto on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:35AM (#17515605)
Well (on a relative scale), won't most startups or smaller companies be more in the phase of "writing" as opposed to "re-writing"? I think the advice above would in theory apply to companies big enough to have legacy codebases.
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