Vicky Hariadi

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“It needs a rewrite” is hardly ever about the code. Nine times in ten it means nobody wants to open the one file everything depends on, and proposing a rewrite is a respectable way of saying so.

Picking the exotic option feels like ambition at the time. Two years on it is a maintenance bill with nobody left in the building who can read it.

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