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Learning is cheap, replacing all the code, however, is not.
by Oompa 17y ago
Learning is cheap, replacing all the code, however, is not.
- rw 17y agoNot necessarily: time cost.
- rjurney 17y agoAnd yet it is a certainty that eventually, incrementally, most of the original code will be replaced over time if the product is successful. So perfection shouldn't be where he focuses. He should work with those skills he's got to make maximum progress quickly. Customers don't see schemas.
- csomar 17y agoTrue, but what if the Startup is promising? what if it has a big profit? In this situation it's all about Time.
- rewind 17y agoTrue, but learning without doing can also be a waste of time. It's kind of like reading four books on iPhone programming before you write a line of code: you can be almost sure that an hour into your iPhone programming, you're going to start thinking of things that the books didn't make you think about, or problems that they don't tell you (specifically) how to solve. Doing while learning will be doubly-effective because you'll have book learning at the same time that you're running into real-world problems. It's like writing a full spec. before writing any code for a project. As soon as you get a layer or two into the complexity, you start coming up with different problems and different requirements (that you never thought of before you started).