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Re:Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software develop... by Tade0 on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:30PM (#21972958)
Interesting. I assume nobody figured that it's high time to rewrite the damn thing?
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Re:Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software develop... by specialist on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:22AM (#21980719)
Every (successful) rewrite I've ever done was in secret.

I once spent 6 months fixing someone else's MVP. Every bug fix exposed 2 more. I begged for a do over. Nope, we've invested too much money to abandon.

Once I understand the problem well enough, I banged out a full rewrite in two weeks. I had just one bug before release (one of the trig equations had the wrong sign, facepalm slap).

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