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Because those projects are hard. It is much easier to make a greenfield project that will get 70% done and cancelled before anyone even asks to fix bugs.
by rvba 6y ago
Because those projects are hard.
It is much easier to make a greenfield project that will get 70% done and cancelled before anyone even asks to fix bugs.
- username90 6y agoCan't have been that hard if half an engineer was enough to do the job.
- simonh 6y agoThe half an engineer was just the last team member around, only doing essential maintenance to keep it working.
- username90 6y agoSo why allocate more engineers to the project when it was doing fine with half a head?
- kelnos 6y agoThe article states that they needed to rebuild most of it because the entire thing depended on a deprecated Chrome feature that could be removed at any time.
- rconti 6y agoBecause the collections agent for that technical debt hadn't called _yet_
- simonh 6y agoTo borrow a phrase from the investment industry, the fact that a ticking time bomb has never previously gone off is not always a reliable indication of future performance.