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by AussieWog93 1877 days ago
>I cannot relate to people who make prototypes to throw away, I've never done it, and I don't know why I'd do it.

I did it a lot through university. If you have no experience tackling a certain type of problem, your perception of it tends to change significantly as you build the solution and become familiar with the problem space. It makes sense to throw away what you've written, because most of it was based on assumptions that were wrong.