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Kinda like building a web app. Think, estimate, write, compile, deploy, repeat. On a serious note, there's so many similarities between building a house and a
by stef25 6y ago
Kinda like building a web app. Think, estimate, write, compile, deploy, repeat.
On a serious note, there's so many similarities between building a house and a web app.
Without a proper plan and a blueprint, preferably by an architect and not the contractor - forget about it. Client never knows what they want. Small changes (KILL ME NOW) can take huge amount of time and impact things that don't seem connected, which the client never understands. The last 10% is rarely completed or done badly. It always takes much longer than expected. Everyone's excited in the beginning and considers euthanasia toward the end.
It's hilarious really.
- vidanay 6y agoBuilding a cabin is more like programming a game of tic-tac-toe. They weren't trying to build the Burj Khalifa on an as-you-go basis.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoThe similarities to web applications are not many. If you fuck up, you can erase the lines of code and replace it with the new ones. If you fuck up the foundation of your house, you've now potentially wasted many man-hours and whatever resources you used on it, and will probably need to spend just as many to fix it.
- stef25 6y agoIf the "core" of your software needs to be rewritten half way through the project then that's a disaster and you've also wasted many man-hours on it. Maybe my crap's not loosely coupled enough.