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Maybe in the first 6 months or so after writing it.

After that, I occasionally go back through old code asking "what have you done for ME lately?" and an eye towards dragging it behind the toolshed and going "Ole Yeller" on it.

My code has to continually prove its worth to me, or else it's gone. Code is a liability.



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