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		doggydogs94 on Feb 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How terrible code gets written by sane people The key word is "deadline". Horrible code that works beats beautiful code that has not been thoroughly tested.

JustSomeNobody on Feb 19, 2017 [–]

Along those same thoughts, you put many developers in a room and they end up converging on "the one true architecture" and nothing ever ships but you have this monstrosity with some very beautiful code in it. Put few developers in a room and you get decent code and a solution to the problem that actually ships.

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