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by 908B64B197 1270 days ago
It's funny how there's always a cheap offshored bodyshop involved in these stories yet it's never their fault. Cue in the 9$/hour indian coders working for Boeing.

Here's the thing I've learned over the years: Never touch offshored code. Always go for a complete re-write. Don't add features to it, don't refactor it, don't extend it. Just re-write. In my experience it's the best approach.

I know guys who made it their whole business to go and completely re-write projects from scratch after offshoring efforts failed.