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		fleaflicker on Jan 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code My favorite Joel essay: "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html This discussion comes up a lot. People make strong arguments for both approaches. If you have an established product/business, rewriting is very dangerous. I prefer to refactor aggressively.

shipit on Jan 25, 2011 [–]

I was about to post this very link! It takes upwards of 1 year to get stable and rewriting at that point without considering refactoring and/or creative solutions is cumulative team/company failure.

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