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It took me too long to understand this. I always felt pressure to get things done so skipped reading the manual. Turns out I would have gotten more done had I j
by xupybd 4y ago
It took me too long to understand this. I always felt pressure to get things done so skipped reading the manual. Turns out I would have gotten more done had I just read the manual.
- jaggederest 4y agoThere's the hoary old cliche about "if I was given three hours to cut down a tree with an axe, I would spend the first hour sharpening the axe" but in many cases it's really true. You can look like a superhero just by pointing out some small feature that makes life easier. One time I pointed out that, rather than reordering the tables to make loading work with foreign key constraints, we could pause trigger execution, load all the data, and then resume the triggers. pg_dump can even do it for you if you pick the options right (might be default), in addition to natively ordering the data correctly, but if you're messing around with large SQL files anyway, it's helpful..
- j45 4y agoClever architecture and approach that borders on a series or layers of simple decisions can often put perform clever coding and maintain a greater degree of flexibility.
- j45 4y agoiOS Typo *put perform = outperform
- couchand 4y agoHere to point out that Lincoln said "six hours to cut down a tree... four hours sharpening", and I think that ratio is better. He wasn't the first to observe the general principle, it's at least as old as the Bible[0]. [0]: https://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/10-10.htm https://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/10-10.htm