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Usually you can't delete half your codebase and re-build it at zero cost. The cost of developing a codebase is often the primary cost for software companies.
by nfw2 5y ago
Usually you can't delete half your codebase and re-build it at zero cost. The cost of developing a codebase is often the primary cost for software companies.
- hinkley 5y agoThe cost of the knowledge of that code and the techniques that created is spread in five to fifty other brains. That’s the hard part. You keep finding new copies of patterns you’re trying to remove. In a couple of notable cases, that didn’t stop until I removed the last copy. My theory is that certain people were cutting and pasting code from one of the three surviving copies.