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Can't have been that hard if half an engineer was enough to do the job.

• simonh 6y ago
  The half an engineer was just the last team member around, only doing essential maintenance to keep it working.
  • username90 6y ago
    So why allocate more engineers to the project when it was doing fine with half a head?
    • kelnos 6y ago
      The 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 ago
      Because the collections agent for that technical debt hadn't called _yet_
    • simonh 6y ago
      To 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.