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Re:Cars took over because the legal system helped squeezed o... by magduf on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:56PM (#20403827)
>That's the civil engineering equivalent of rewriting the entire codebase from scratch.

And yet, "refactoring" is definitely a real thing in software engineering and is not uncommon, for good reason: many times you really do need to throw everything out and start from scratch.

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Re:Cars took over because the legal system helped squeezed o... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:42PM (#20404359)
Is there a version control for reality so you can rollback if things go horribly wrong? How many lives are ruined if the refactoring fails. That's an incredibly poor metaphor for actual, physical, events.
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