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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by satvikpendem on Sunday June 02, 2024 @10:02PM (#40558729)
Unfortunately, that rewrite step often doesn't happen. I can't count the number of times a prototype that was meant to be thrown away was actually put into production because "it's cheaper and faster than rewriting."
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by buffalobuffalo on Sunday June 02, 2024 @10:17PM (#40558810)
Yeah, there is that. I guess this comes with the caveat that you have to have enough say in the project that you can mandate a rewrite.
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by doctor_eval on Sunday June 02, 2024 @11:26PM (#40559060)
I’m working on a prototype now but I deliberately made it run entirely in the browser (indexeddb) to avoid the problem that I might be asked to put it in production!
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by mobiuscog on Monday June 03, 2024 @03:19AM (#40560151)
"Phase 2 never happens"
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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by Sander_Marechal on Monday June 03, 2024 @03:45AM (#40560257)
"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution that works"

I have no idea who said that, but I use it a lot at work when people want to cut corners with the intent to fix it later.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? by djeastm on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:16AM (#40562334)
>I can't count the number of times a prototype that was meant to be thrown away was actually put into production because "it's cheaper and faster than rewriting."

Did the business make money, though? I think that's the law of the jungle

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