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Perhaps, but businesses are not run on the basis of the long run (unless you are in R&D mode for 10 years), they are one short run after the next.
by grandalf 16y ago
Perhaps, but businesses are not run on the basis of the long run (unless you are in R&D mode for 10 years), they are one short run after the next.
- jrockway 16y agoI've found this not to be the case. If you write custom applications and they are solid, when it comes time to add a new feature, you can do it quickly and keep the customer happy. If you are riddled with technical debt, the cost of adding a small feature approaches the cost of having a competitor rewrite the whole application.
- grandalf 16y agoI'm not advocating taking on technical debt, just arguing that sometimes the anti technical debt crusade turns into premature optimization and unnecessary concept creep.