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1. Overclocked, Custom Fox (azure@vulpine.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2017 20:32:49 EDT Overclocked, Custom Fox

   Applying Chesterton's Fence to software development is well-motivated by the realization that ones fellow programmers are generally competent people.

   Often people driven to accumulate technical debt, it's true, but if something seems really weird and pointless it's worth assuming the author had a good reason.

   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2017 23:09:36 EDT clacke

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      @azure Thank you, I didn't know about this term for this phenomenon. Last month I sent https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ to people in the office.
      
      Next time I'll also throw in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence for good measure.
      
      This is also a good illustration of what a VCS is for.