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		IanPBann on Sept 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList This is very similar to Joel Spolsky's advice that you should never just chuck code out and and start from scratch. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

littleblah on Sept 9, 2019 [–]

Yup. That was my inspiration, and sadly, I have been on the side as well where things started from scratch, and ended up blowing up couple of months later.

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