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		gniv on Aug 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All the best engineering advice I stole from non-t... “To go left, turn right.” I encountered this idea in a different context, and I too thought it was insightful/funny: (On some divided highways) “Left turn from right lane” The jughandle would make as good a symbol for a philosophical movement as the yin-yang.

m12k on Aug 5, 2019 [–]

A variation is "never replace/remove something if you can't explain what good it does". The classic example is the big code rewrite, where years of bugfixes and nuances get lost in the 'clean' reimplementation.

lordfoo on Aug 5, 2019 | [–]

Also, Chesterton's Fence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

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