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IMO, the most amazing quote from the original story: It also had a few thousand lines of new code to replace about 150,000 lines of incomprehensible mess
by perpetualcrayon 9y ago
IMO, the most amazing quote from the original story:
It also had a few thousand lines of new code
to replace about 150,000 lines of incomprehensible
mess.
No one looked at the quality of work after maybe 10,000 lines of code?
- candiodari 9y agoYou haven't yet seen many SWEs decide on whether to do a rewrite yet have you ?
- dpark 9y agoThese claims make me assume the original author exaggerated everything to the point that the whole story is essentially a lie. This guy was incredibly capable but copy-pasted everywhere and wrote shitty code? This doesn’t even make sense. It makes even less sense that somehow no one noticed his copy-paste coding for over two years until he was finally fired for other reasons. But then those same incompetents who didn’t notice the copy-pasting or generally overengineered spagetti code suddenly came together to rebuild the whole product in a quarter of the time with less than a tenth of the code. Yeah right.