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A silver lining for the current pandemic is that more people might learn the word "exponent". Technical debt is misleading. A better term is a time bomb (fixin
by d0mine 6y ago
A silver lining for the current pandemic is that more people might learn the word "exponent".
Technical debt is misleading. A better term is a time bomb (fixing consequences might be exponentially harder than the original issue).
- srtjstjsj 6y agowww.castsoftware.com/blog/bad-code-isnt-technical-debt-its-an-unhedged-call-option (2014)
- d0mine 6y agoThe original is probably this: https://www.higherorderlogic.com/2010/07/23/bad-code-isnt-technical-debt-its-an-unhedged-call-option/ https://www.higherorderlogic.com/2010/07/23/bad-code-isnt-te... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777237