pteromyscus

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   by pteromyscus 14y ago

   > The second thought was that ground-up rewrites are almost never a good idea to begin with. For a complex system, like an OS or a browser. This is a bloody social news site, as trivial an application as it gets. One man can write a ha
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   by pteromyscus 14y ago

   One measly article does not a law constitute. There ARE counter-examples of successful systems re-built from scratch. The rewrite might have killed Netscape, for example, but without the rewrite from scratch not only would have Netscape die
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   by pteromyscus 14y ago

   Google has abandoned tons of stuff and poorly maintains lots of others.
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   by pteromyscus 14y ago

   Too bad, Yoda could be a killer programmer.
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   by pteromyscus 14y ago

   Why do people keep saying such things regarding previews and demos? He is not complaining about a bug. Nor does he complain about a not ready for primetime feature in some early development version. Those are expected. He is complaining abo