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Phil Nash

I once deleted the code for the most important page of an application a week before it was supposed to be launched. The application was built in a framework that handled it's own version control (yeah). Except this part of the application had been built with a new feature that didn't have version control yet (yeah...).

It had taken weeks to get this page to its current state and I ended up rewriting it entirely within an afternoon out of sheer desperation. Sadly, it was probably better the second time. The launch went ahead on time at least.