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satvikpendemtoday at 2:46 AM2 repliesview on HN

If you're an enterprise (including startups), you worry about customers, not code quality. There are famously many startups that gained traction despite shit code and then eventually got around to fixing it, to whatever extent was possible, like Facebook HHVM, Stripe's Sorbet, etc.


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watwuttoday at 6:27 AM

Startups failed because they cound not untangle own code after 4 months. Literally true stories (plural).

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wonnagetoday at 3:14 AM

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