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by pavel_lishin 269 days ago
> But that's sometimes okay, it's a lifecycle of software. If business doesn't schedule maintenance, then maintenance schedules itself. The job of a good engineer is to make business types in the know about and let them decide.

Or sometimes the code continues to encrust itself, like a pearl - or more likely, like a kidney stone - not fatally, but causing pain all the goddamned time.