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Re:How a startup can survive technical debt by boffinism on Sunday January 03, 2021 @03:04AM (#25620381)
Actually it did work 'because of' the junior dev. They couldn't afford a senior dev, so the only viable path to success was to hire a junior. If the point of the original anecdote was 'don't hire a junior for your startup' the point of mine is 'sometimes do'.
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Re:How a startup can survive technical debt by xupybd on Sunday January 03, 2021 @03:41AM (#25620502)
I've seen this a few times. Terrible code but successful company. The companies could not have afforded better programmers. Instead of seed funding they funded with debt, technical debt.

The hardest part is explaining to the owners why it's so expensive to fix everything. They don't understand how it was so cheap to build yet so expensive to maintain.

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