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Suit yourself if you want to write crap code.

The fallacy here is that cleaning up your code, doing things right, and writing unit tests slows down your development speed. You could be implementing new features, after all.

But what you will (or would) find if you did take the time to do it right is that it speeds up your development speed tremendously.

I am not talking about proof of concept implementations and skeleton apps, rapid prototyping - these all have their place.

I don't want to write the next Twitter fail whale server app - thanks very much. As for Facebook, they obviously have a rock solid backbone infrastructure. Extremely impressive, and I am willing to bet that it didn't get there by adding hacks upon hacks - to the contrary.

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