>However not long after you are gone, there comes someone fresh off the latest tech convention, who find that your system/code is good, but not done according to the best coding practices (or latest technology) and thus in need of some major refactoring...
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>And there we go again. Never ending cycle of exciting technology innovation... :))

And we see this often even here. I do get a wee bit tired of posting code with a question and having people rewrite my code into their style - telling me to try THAT and don't answer the freakin' question I was asking in the first place.