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Comment by FatherOfCurses

8 hours ago

Boss: "Just slap something together for the meeting with the Big Cheese this afternoon."

(Engineer internal monologue) "OK I'll just agree to everything during setup, I can just tear it all down later."

Six months later the slapped together demo is the production release.

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syntaxing  8 hours ago

As the engineering saying goes, nothing more permanent than a temporary solution

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