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Good Software Development Habits

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362 points mmphosis | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 16:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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zombiwoof ◴[17 Nov 24 19:08 UTC] No.42166201[source]▶
Seems like the definition here of software is always “maintenance” of something as is, like replacing the boards on Theseus

Sometimes software is hard and 10x engineers just need to rewrite the whole thing or replace large systems

To subscribe to some world where we have to do that in “small changes” limits us

We shouldn’t make process to the weakest engineers

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1. alexchamberlain ◴[17 Nov 24 22:20 UTC] No.42167881[source]▶
I think it's misleading to say iteration or full rewrites are the only 2 options. The most impactful, yet successful, projects I've worked on rewrite a part of a system. ie replace a custom search index by Solr, but leave the data itself and the UI the same, then once you're happy that went well, improve the data or the UI afterwards.