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Agree, and in theory duplication is easy to refactor and clean up, but the nasty thing about duplication is that the instances can diverge in little ways, and t
by ahefner 6y ago
Agree, and in theory duplication is easy to refactor and clean up, but the nasty thing about duplication is that the instances can diverge in little ways, and then the person cleaning it up may not be able to tell if the differences are meaningful and need to be preserved, or accidents of maintenance.
- muzani 6y agoMy current job is cleaning up both kinds of tech debt for a startup. Duplication has created several bugs, but most of them were fixable in a few hours at most, and we finished cleaning them all up within 4 months. Bad abstraction has taken hours to months to clear up and we're still not done.