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From a previous life ... "Speed is life" ... as long as there is control. Speed with control is better described as velocity, and is a vector - it's getting yo
by thrill 17y ago
From a previous life ... "Speed is life" ... as long as there is control. Speed with control is better described as velocity, and is a vector - it's getting you where you want to be, rapidly. Speed without direction (control) is simply rapid, and possibly random, change in position - you probably won't like the end result - kind of like jumping naked off a tall Scotland cliff - it's great fun for about 10 seconds ...
- run4yourlives 17y agoPilot? (Flying is the only thing I can think of where going faster gives you more options, not less)
- apotheon 17y agoGoing faster in the right direction is a sign you've made the right choices -- not a way to get more options for the choices you make.
- joe_the_user 17y agoSoftware development is hard. I suspect that sometimes it only seems like speed caused a bad decision when in reality, the decision came because the programmer didn't understand some part of the domain, especially didn't understand how to design the code to be extensible beyond a certain area. Indeed, speed is an excellent excuse for just failing to extend beyond a certain area. The reality might be that whatever speed you went, you would first create a failed design and only after seeing the failure be able to create the successful design. So... no magic bullet for you!