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Subject: Re: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures)
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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:47:01 +0100
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>  they will ask others to help them out.  the basic
> (and correct) response is:
>
>     throw it away and build it right
>
> but the investment is always seen to be too great so it gets
> glued back together so it 'works' and it keeps 'nurses'
> employed.

This is possibly the correct approach, actually. Patch it for
them, then leave and get a job with a company that *isn't* about
to be dragged under by a crufty atrocity. :-)