[nathants]

sturgeon’s law applies. most of the time they are right to.

put another way, 90% of code is a liability, 10% of code is an asset.

i’m not sure any code ever moved from one group to the other, though good ideas may be stolen sans code.

greenfield is the only way to grow that 10%. it’s the reason startups exist.

it’s like all the failed rewrites. those engineers gained knowledge and fitness through that failure. if their current employer doesn’t retain them, that knowledge and fitness will pay dividends to the next one.

[klysm]

Rewrites are a phenomenal way to sprint through an incredible number of Chestersons fences. That is one way to find out why they are there though it’s just a bit more expensive

[nathants]

if you don’t deploy them, their cost goes to zero!

assuming the spent engineering hours would have been wasted elsewhere anyway.

ymmv.

[avgcorrection]

68% of all random-ass percentage laws are crap.

[nathants]

68 < 90. technically correct.