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Re:Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base by crimsonalucard on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:15AM (#19269087)
Sometimes the initial design truly was a mistake.
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Re:Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base by cc81 on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:14AM (#19269849)
Yes, and sometimes the people are fully aware of that as well. But even a shitty designed piece of code that has been running in production for year will have ironed out most of its bugs. There might be other designs that would be more maintainable but refactoring to reach that might be an investment that the company is not willing to make.
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