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Re:EBay acquires Hunch for $80m by drumdance on Monday November 21, 2011 @01:23PM (#3262148)
Flickr was a bonafide cultural phenomenon before Yahoo let it die on the vine. That doesn't happen with crappy engineering. Less-than-optimal engineering, yes. That's the tradeoff between getting a product out the door and never delivering.

Netscape's code was pretty crappy too.

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Re:EBay acquires Hunch for $80m by hello_moto on Monday November 21, 2011 @01:43PM (#3262248)
I never refer to a perfect utopia where the code is superbly indented, nicely commented, looks great, etc.

But hacks will always be hacks regardless the discussion of "getting product out of the door" vs "never delivering".

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