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That's like forking someone's program, but not understanding two thirds of the code. (What's the big deal? It happens!)

If you take someone's 4000-5000 line program and whittle it down to 473 lines which are still somehow useful, "newly created" doesn't apply in full honesty, let alone if you don't know what a third of those lines do.



In this analogy, they're not looking for the code to "work". They simply want it to compile.


They do want it to work, they just want it to be the MVP.


That is wrong analogy. Compiling the code doesn't mean it will run.


Maybe life is written in Haskell




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