Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica...
by m12k on Monday August 05, 2019 @11:41AM
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A variation is "never replace/remove something if you can't explain what good it does". The classic example is the big code rewrite, where years of bugfixes and nuances get lost in the 'clean' reimplementation.
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Re:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technica...
by lordfoo on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:33PM
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Also, Chesterton's Fence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence