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Re:Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professio... by ahefner on Friday June 05, 2020 @06:21PM (#23434706)
Agree, and in theory duplication is easy to refactor and clean up, but the nasty thing about duplication is that the instances can diverge in little ways, and then the person cleaning it up may not be able to tell if the differences are meaningful and need to be preserved, or accidents of maintenance.
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Re:Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professio... by muzani on Sunday June 07, 2020 @10:35PM (#23453061)
My current job is cleaning up both kinds of tech debt for a startup. Duplication has created several bugs, but most of them were fixable in a few hours at most, and we finished cleaning them all up within 4 months. Bad abstraction has taken hours to months to clear up and we're still not done.
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