> I shudder when thinking of all the times I have wasted time trying to generalize something My programming life has improved for the better when my threshold

> I shudder when thinking of all the times I have wasted time trying to generalize something My programming life has improved for the better when my threshold to generalise and DRY is not when I need to use some piece of code in two different places, but when I need to use it in three different places. I am not joking, that was life changing advice for me.