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bmm6o
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Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [p...
Next time you write a line of code, you have to delete two others.
anonbanker
on Nov 10, 2016
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What would happen if we applied this for 4 years on an existing codebase, such as the Linux Kernel?
alayne
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People would fix the low hanging fruit and leave the hard/hairy parts that need work the most.
tjbiddle
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True - but then eventually, everyone would have to focus on the hard/hairy parts, no?
grzm
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Yup. That doesn't mean that it's not worth taking care of the easy bits first.
TylerE
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Most likely support for obscure devices would disappear.
anonbanker
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To be fair, that's already starting to happen[0]. do you think it would happen faster than it is today?
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0OTg
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