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		portLAN on Aug 23, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steve "spez" Huffman of Reddit on The Total Rewrit... >the old code was essentially two years of hacks and cludges. The new version is much cleaner, and the new back-end is much more malleable. The idea is that once we get caught up with ourselves, the actual new stuff will come pretty quickly.

run4yourlives on Aug 23, 2007 | [–]

>the old code was essentially two years of hacks and cludges.

That basically describes every piece of software ever written. It's not always a justifiable excuse to re-write the codebase though.

aston on Aug 23, 2007 | [–]

+1 for reading TFA. More of that FTW.

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