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		ozgrakkurt 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Myth of Developer Obsolescence Code is an asset. It costs a lot of money to create “code”. This is like saying your transportation fleet as a delivery company isn’t an asset but a liability, it makes no sense. Almost all assets require varying amounts of maintenance.

Terr_ 4 months ago [–]

I imagine a factory with giant containers of hideously corrosive and toxic chemicals that might be very useful for a particular chemical reaction.

Those default ground-state of those tanks are liabilities. They may be assets today, but maintaining that conditional status requires constant work.

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