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		bradleyjg on Aug 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Human Cost of Tech Debt From the bosses' point of view it is very difficult to tell the difference between "we have a crap codebase" and "the new guy sucks at reading code and is going to want to rewrite everything he touches".

whack on Aug 4, 2016 [–]

If 5 different people are all saying the same thing, that makes it a lot easier.

marcosdumay on Aug 4, 2016 | | [–]

It's not rare that a company hires 5 bad developers (or more) for each 1 good one.

clifanatic on Aug 4, 2016 | | [–]

> that makes it a lot easier.

Should make it.

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