Re:Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base
by yakshaving_jgt on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @09:53PM
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I know this opinion is extremely controversial, but sometimes — usually as a result of inexperience — people do put out bad work.
Sometimes it's cheaper for a business to rewrite something (the size of that something is highly context sensitive), than it is to work around a poor approach to a problem.
I know we love to believe in the industry that everyone is a genius and any self-doubt is imposter syndrome, but as Camille Fournier put it: "This is Hallmark card pablum".[0]
Sometimes it's cheaper for a business to rewrite something (the size of that something is highly context sensitive), than it is to work around a poor approach to a problem.
I know we love to believe in the industry that everyone is a genius and any self-doubt is imposter syndrome, but as Camille Fournier put it: "This is Hallmark card pablum".[0]
[0]: https://twitter.com/skamille/status/1004735128726376448