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Did they make the company a lot more money than they cost? If so they were probably a good idea. Not all code needs to be "pretty" to serve a purpose. I've seen
by jdavis703 10y ago
Did they make the company a lot more money than they cost? If so they were probably a good idea. Not all code needs to be "pretty" to serve a purpose. I've seen some pretty epic hacks that I know generated hundreds of thousands of dollars of new revenue.
- im_down_w_otp 10y agoThey often had a significant "bus factor" problem as a result of this in the best cases, and in the worst cases these mountains of hacks were a massive impediment to growth and/or evolution to meet changing marketplace demands... despite being a central pillar of data management and revenue as it existed in the status quo.