Once it scrapped the "trying to do everything at once like the website" grid design for a speedy app that defaulted to the feed, usage exploded.
"We, as many startups do, fell victim to overloading our product with a lot of features that we thought were cool and we simply kept them because of the time we spent working on them," said Xue. "Once we scrapped the fatty tissue around our core product, we designed an experience solely around making requests easy to create and interact with.
"Once I scrapped my original idea, I was still attached to some of the scenes and elements I had created," he says.
On 20 February 2001, starting with "Going Under", the fourteenth episode of the show's seventeenth season, the opening and closing sequences were once again scrapped to make way for a completely new sequence and theme.
"In music, once you scrap out the cost of physically producing and distributing content, what you have is a pure copyright exploitation model.
"Just move out of London, mate" isn't quite the solution it once was: scrapping the idea of a house entirely is slowly becoming the more viable option.
He still hated large chunks of the game, especially the story, but he was determined to see it through, even if meant (once again) scrapping work he'd spent large chunks of his life building and refining to this point.
The paper continued: "We are all for working tax credits being scrapped once pay has risen sufficiently.
But it wants him to abolish it altogether: "We and our readers will only be happy when inheritance tax is scrapped once and for all.
It was why she told the Sunday Times and the BBC's Andrew Marr show that she intends a "great repeal bill" – a device to change the status of European regulations in British law so they might more readily be scrapped once the UK has formally quit the EU.
