The irony is that this is still going on at Google, and presumably everywhere else in the industry as well.
The article describes how Google constantly improved and rewrote their codebase to make it better. I wish this was going on everywhere else in the industry. Unfortunately, in many cases the very first version of some application is deemed perfect, so no one is allowed to replace it, until it's too late.
The article describes how Google constantly improved and rewrote their codebase to make it better. I wish this was going on everywhere else in the industry. Unfortunately, in many cases the very first version of some application is deemed perfect, so no one is allowed to replace it, until it's too late.