1. if you've let it go on for months you can probably afford to wait A Little Longer. 2. because everything is relative i take "for months" to mean "for a dang

1. if you've let it go on for months you can probably afford to wait A Little Longer. 2. because everything is relative i take "for months" to mean "for a dangerously long time". and this is what i mean by cutting your losses: it's hard to know in the moment when to fall on plan b. everyone agrees they could train any decent programmer- no one really does it. i'm not trying to defend any practice, just trying to reconcile the contradiction.