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by 4lx87 2 hours ago
It’s not a failure that resources were spent writing code that was not needed?
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gf000 2 hours ago
Maybe it was temporarily needed, but the assumptions around it has changed and now it's unneeded. Then people built on top of that not understanding that they could simplify the whole system, and only later was that option discovered.

What would you keep from this?

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