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| Things You Should Never Do (2000) (joelonsoftware.com) | ||
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| One user recommended this thread. What they said: |
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I was a regular reader of this blog from its early days, and also thought that it had a lot of good advice. One article that sticks in my mind is the one that advised against doing complete rewrites of software systems:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23725867
Many of the articles continue to be frequently posted on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=joelonsoftware.com
In case you're not familiar with Joel Spolsky, he went on to be one of the co-founders of Stack Overflow:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky