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Rebuilding? Why not take the working code and refine, refine, refine, continuously, so that each week or two the site is subtly better, less buggy, more usable?
by stevoski 14y ago
Rebuilding? Why not take the working code and refine, refine, refine, continuously, so that each week or two the site is subtly better, less buggy, more usable?
- smspence 14y agoWe have no idea what the code looks like. Maybe some knowledgeable engineers took a look at it and figured it would be better in the long run to just design and build something new themselves, instead of inheriting someone else's hairy, warty code. (I am just offering ideas here, I don't actually know how hairy the code is or how many warts it has.)
- MartinCron 14y agoRebuilding is a lot more stimulating. I had an engineer quit on me when I convinced the team to do incremental updates instead of rolling forward with an over-engineered rebuild that would just trade one set of problems for a different set of problems.