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Re:Apps Getting Worse by actually_a_dog on Sunday August 08, 2021 @09:12PM (#28111736)
You forgot that maintenance contractors aren’t kept on permanent retainer. Why bother keeping software maintenance crews on permanently?
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Re:Apps Getting Worse by oscardssmith on Sunday August 08, 2021 @11:27PM (#28112471)
The big difference is that if a competent plumber looks at a sink, it will take them 30 seconds to figure out. If a competent programmer looks at a new codebase with 30000 lines of code, it will take them 6 months to understand it, and then still be missing 80% of the details.
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