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peruvian on Jan 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: 25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning

I get the sentiment but if you want to be able to point to things that you built years ago software is probably the worst career to take. We shutdown, delete, replace, and rewrite our work all the time.

The small amount stuff that lasts over five years gets called legacy and is made fun of.

imhoguy on Jan 20, 2019 [–]

"if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive."

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