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Re:What was the nicest codebase you've inherited without the... by amoitnga on Sunday March 03, 2019 @09:51AM (#19294678)
Wow, that's some wisdom right there :) +1.

Whole new meaning to "best code is the one that doesn't exist".

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Re:What was the nicest codebase you've inherited without the... by _randyr on Sunday March 03, 2019 @09:56AM (#19294702)
There's a talk by Greg Young regarding this topic called "The art of destroying software" [1]. It's a fairly interesting talk about designing your software with deletion in mind.

[1] https://vimeo.com/108441214

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Re:What was the nicest codebase you've inherited without the... by amoitnga on Sunday March 03, 2019 @10:38AM (#19294918)
It may be a good message, but it's so hard to take it through such a condescending and off-putting way of delivering.
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Re:What was the nicest codebase you've inherited without the... by geoka9 on Sunday March 03, 2019 @11:13AM (#19295133)
Ken Thompson: "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code."
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