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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by nicoburns on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:36AM (#18449372)
I think this validates my view that testing is important, but keeping the codebase clean, readable and modular is more important!
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by humanrebar on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:03AM (#18449514)
Why not both?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by frogpelt on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:05AM (#18450879)
Yes, both. But maybe one is more important?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by mrkarim on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:11PM (#18454601)
I'd argue the tests is more important for example Oracle is still the leading commercial DB, If your product works people will buy it.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by Johnny555 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @06:41AM (#18458500)
Isn't that mostly due to momentum? But if Oracle can't keep up with the features customers need, they'll lose that momentum.

Enterprise software sales cycles are slow, but once they start turning, it's hard to turn them back.

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