Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband police department

Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by Natsu on Sunday June 07, 2020 @06:23PM (#23451465)

When it comes to code, I thought the consensus was strongly against that because it tends to introduce more problems than it solves.

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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by Recursing on Sunday June 07, 2020 @06:52PM (#23451758)

I think a lot of it comes from opinion pieces such as this one https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... which makes incredibly confident and general statements from a very small sample size, while there are many success stories of successful complete rewrites

Also, "Most software at Google gets rewritten every few years." https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.01715.pdf

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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:27PM (#23452368)

> Also, "Most software at Google gets rewritten every few years."

That's hardly point in favor, given Google's "reputation" for long-term support and stability, and the sheer amount of engineers that they can throw at literally every problem.

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Re:Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disba... by woofie11 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @06:53PM (#23451770)

I think consensus is that it depends on the code.

There's a consensus against pointless rewrites, but that's different.

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