> when you're trying to set a record swimming the English Channel Your training time to competition time is about 99:1 (on the high side for the competition ti

> when you're trying to set a record swimming the English Channel Your training time to competition time is about 99:1 (on the high side for the competition time). The record attempts (or the emergencies) are a poor continuation of this analogy when it comes to programming. > unconditionally advising people to swim with weights, is simply bad advice So we should advise them to use floats instead, since it makes swimming so much easier?