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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2017) by zorked on Friday January 04, 2019 @08:57AM (#18824044)
Five people understand the system.

You refactor it.

Now one person understands the system.

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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2017) by Aeolun on Friday January 04, 2019 @11:23AM (#18825159)
Initially the system took 8 hours of reading and 2 days of refactoring to grasp.

Now it takes 2 hours.

I’ll take that.

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