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scratch. what do you think? that s right. and actually i did an article a while back basically saying the exact same thing which is really just starting from scratch. if you look at like the windows 8 operating system which is one of the more complex operating systems that we have in today s society, it s roughly around 50 to 80 million lines of code. this is around 500 million lines of code. extremely advanced. complex. basically they had a bunch of different development people and piecing this thing together and at the very end shoving it out the door without majorly testing it there is major implications that this is going to have from years to go down the road. how different is this from just someone who in college was doing an all nighter or frantically putting together, you know, the final pages of a turn term paper and ends up getting a decent grade. is there hope that that could still be the case or no? for this site, i don t think so. i think from what we have seen the