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Re:An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x t... by chii on Monday October 27, 2025 @08:14AM (#45720090)
> not always how reality works

yep. The stakeholder (who is paying the money) asks why the prototype can't just be "fixed up" and be sold for money, instead of paying for more dev time to rewrite. There's no answer that they can be satisfied with.

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Re:An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x t... by mabster on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:38PM (#45739578)
Or the timeline just doesn't have capacity for experimentation so the expectations are clear right from the start!
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