how are we going to have a robust internet forum if we are not allowed to interpret quotes to the extremes of their meaning in order to have an easy punching bag for our comments?
That's the part that made the least sense to me. If he doesn't actually mean to rewrite it twice, what does he _mean_? Copy and paste the old code? Rewrite half it? Typically (my "intelligent application") I will read the code I wrote yesterday and make improvements, is that sufficient?
Nobody. The article even says, "N.B. Obviously, don't write literally everything twice. It's a heuristic. Apply intelligently."