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Excellent post. The first question I ask myself, as an engineer approaching a new problem, is "How can I cheat? What's the 90% solution that will take 10% of
by abstractbill 14y ago
Excellent post.
The first question I ask myself, as an engineer approaching a new problem, is "How can I cheat? What's the 90% solution that will take 10% of the time?" (The next question is, "Is 90% enough?").
I'm always surprised by engineers who don't think this way.
- jakejake 14y agoI think this is the essence of the phrase "a good programmer is a lazy one."
- bigiain 14y agoThe three qualities of any great programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris. (From The Camel Book (Programming Perl) in about 1990 or '91, from memory) http://www.hhhh.org/wiml/virtues.html http://www.hhhh.org/wiml/virtues.html
- MaysonL 14y agoIt ain't hubris when it's objectively true. :-)