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And if you are the type that does well with band-aid code strung together with duct tape and bailing wire and even bubble gum, then don't get upset when your company gets bought and the entire code base gets rewritten into something that teams can manage

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I'm not entirely sure why people who "sling code" would object to their code being completely rewritten -- particularly when the startup mindset is "we'll get something working right now, and once we figure out what we're doing, we can rewrite everything into something stable."

And those who don't want to participate in the "stabilization" effort typically move on to find the next shiny and exciting thing to work on.

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