BoS2015 David Heinemeier Hansson – Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder of Basecamp. Rewrite!

REWRITE

– Joel Spolsky, Things You Should Never Do, Part I [2000]

“They did it by making the  single worst strategic mistake

that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from

scratch.”

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Net gain: -2Cost of change: 10

Value of change: 8

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It’s easier to justifyimproving what is than to start fresh

– Louis C.K.

“There there’s a huge challenge in not having your old act. But I think you

rise to the occasion. You won’t rise to the occasion if you don’t put a void there: you have to take away

your old material from yourself.”

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