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Things You Should Never Do, Part 1 https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/thing

• JKCalhoun 5y ago
  Things I Have Done: Rewrite sections of the code base from scratch. Like the famous wooden sailing ships of old, one day you look up and realize no line of original code exists. One of my favorite co-workers: "When someone hands me someone else's code to maintain, first thing I do, throw it out, rewrite it." I tend to do that as well — although not all of a sudden. :-)
• the_biot 5y ago
  The trouble with advice from Joel is that basically all of it can be refuted with one word: "wasabi".