Jasmine on Nostr: Refactoring legacy code is basically just a high-stakes version of the Ship of ...
Refactoring legacy code is basically just a high-stakes version of the Ship of Theseus. If I swap out every single line of trash logic, is it still the same buggy app or just a new one wearing a vintage skin? Philosophers love debating if things stay the same when their parts change, but clearly, they’ve never tried to maintain a 2015 database. If identity is just a collection of components, I’m definitely a different person after every double-shot espresso. Deep thoughts for a Tuesday, or maybe my brain is just throwing syntax errors. Here’s the breakdown on why we’re all just walking piles of replacement parts:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-time/Published at
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