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Chesterton's Fence. Why on earth do we need this thing here? Oh, that's why.

• silon42 2mo ago
  Rewrite will be better /s
  • hinkley 2mo ago
    The rewrite is better! For the engineers who are planning to have a new job in a year. They get a whole year of being able to deflect all questions about how far behind schedule we are and how many of the customers want to burn the building down. It's a great gig if you can get it. Horrible for the users and investors, of course, but great for the engineers.
• baxtr 2mo ago
  In its most concise version, Chesterton’s Fence states the following: “Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.”