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The Unavoidable Hack
- Schinken 15y agogreat article. everytime i need to do a hack, i ask myself the same question. the point of no return moved far away with more coding-experience. i think this is a problem of a perfectionist :)
- DanielRibeiro 15y agoI always try to keep in mind that A Mess is not a Technical Debt[1], and that when you keep that in mind you can do it intentionally[2]. Which is particularly useful when you are more interested in learning[3] about a problem (like building a MVP) than when you are in solving it[4]. [1] http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/09/22/a-mess-is-not-a-technical-debt http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/09/22/a-mess-is-n... [2] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html [3] http://www.ashmaurya.com/2011/06/your-product-is-not-the-product/ http://www.ashmaurya.com/2011/06/your-product-is-not-the-pro... [4] http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=251 http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=251
- vladiim 15y agoInsightful article and really well written. I guess the closest you can come is: - having people around you who have similar standards - a culture of constantly questioning everything - a business unit that understands the importance of overcoming tech debt
- alexcsm 15y agoGreat article, I'm sure most of us have felt the same way at one point or another.