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The eternal struggle between "rewrite it from scratch" and "build upon legacy code"

• koheripbal 6y ago
  In this case, we're trying to build upon compiled assembly code that's been re-obfuscated every generation. I'm not even kidding. Almost every protein in the human body has multiple unrelated functions, just because evolution says "hey, this is here, let's use it for something new". Every new human is an experiment in code chaos.
  • tasty_freeze 6y ago
    > Almost every protein in the human body has multiple unrelated functions That is why the phrase "DNA is the blueprint of the cell" is terrible. In a blueprint, one can move a door 6" to the right without affecting the rest of the structure, add or remove a window, etc.