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  > "If it's not broken don't fix it."
Definition of stupid shit is relative though, what's stupid in the codebase today may not have been so stupid 3 years ago. What might look stupid upon first visit might actually be the only reasonable way to solve the problem.

But then there's other stupid shit, hacks for quickly solving a certain edge case. For example abusing Java type erasure and collections.

Other stupid shit from experience is avoiding risk of "new" technologies, (Still on CVS).



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