Re:Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base
by ahoka on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:38AM
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> The counterpoint to Chesterton's Fence is the psychology experiment with the monkeys, the stairs and the banana.
Except that experiment never happened. It appeared in some book without any source (a.k.a. pulled out of the author's ass). Interestingly there was a similar experiment, but with an opposite result; the old monkey re-learned the forbidden behavior from the new one.
Except that experiment never happened. It appeared in some book without any source (a.k.a. pulled out of the author's ass). Interestingly there was a similar experiment, but with an opposite result; the old monkey re-learned the forbidden behavior from the new one.
http://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-...