I find myself struggling with this constantly as I develop iOS apps. There's something about the programmer's brain that gets obsessed with the details, and doi

I find myself struggling with this constantly as I develop iOS apps. There's something about the programmer's brain that gets obsessed with the details, and doing it the "right way", and tweaking for completely insignificant performance gains, and just loves researching all the minutia. You need to Get It Done. Especially if you're dealing with consumer software, you need to get something infront of the customer, because in 6 months everything may have changed! If you have the luxury of working on corporate software where you have loose deadlines, open budget, and no competition, well go ahead and comment all your code and research all your best practices. It might even be worthwhile, because there's a much better chance that code will still be around in 8 years. If you're a startup, forget it, your product will likely be defunct in 6 months.