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Stop lying to yourself – you will never “fix it later”
- PaulHoule 4y agoI sometimes have.
- kazinator 4y agoMoreover, it's not even always true that you know less and less the longer you are removed from the original change which left in the hack, rendering you less able. Sometimes you come back to it better informed and thankful that you didn't try to do it the "better" way that seemed obvious at the time.
- rektide 4y agoIn my view this outlook is excuse for not-addressing-inadequacy is 15% something coders do and 85% something the org imposes. The top down "we'll ignore that for now and deal with it latter" is huge. 80% of the time it's never returned to. To the corps credit, a third of those times it just doesnt matter.
- compressedgas 4y agoThe quote the author can't find the source for is a statement of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
- suction 4y ago