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Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours by weavie on Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:24AM (#17670902)
> Refactoring was also pretty popular, although it usually just ended up making things more complicated.

Yeah I'm guilty of this one. Sometimes you know the problem is somewhere in a particular area of code, but that code is all over the place. Pulling it apart and refactoring it can be a good way of understanding all its dependencies. If the refactoring doesn't help, just don't check it in..

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Re:How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours by pandler on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:31AM (#17672184)
I don’t think it’s necessarily something to be “guilty” for. Especially if it’s someone else’s code I’m debugging, I agree that rewriting it “in my own words” can be a great way to understand what’s going on. Like you said, its not like you have to check in the changes.

However it sounds like people are talking about refactoring an app solely for the purpose of hoping that the refactor shakes out whatever bugs. That sounds like the debugging equivalent of “8 hours of coding saved me 30 minutes of planning”

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