Re:Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professio...
by partomniscient on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:51AM
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But that's because in those days the people that built the thing have to do production support once it goes live. That doesn't happen so much in larger organisations because they have separate teams divided along "add/build something new" and "keep it going" boundaries without a lot of cross-pollination.
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Re:Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professio...
by p_l on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:27AM
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There's also the difference between building bottom up with full knowledge of what you built, like the Apollo program team had (even if they bought something externally, the people who made it were available to the team, and/or the team studied the items in depth).
And then there's modern world of slapping together libraries that are often not known, sometimes with closed source, sometimes without real documentation. I've had to use disassembler in the past to access framework we were supposed to use...