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> Recognizing the right answer is the hard part. Very true, but even further than that: There are very few clearly right or clearly wrong answers. There are ac
by skore 12y ago
> Recognizing the right answer is the hard part.
Very true, but even further than that: There are very few clearly right or clearly wrong answers. There are actually very few wrong answers - but there is a stupendous amount of right answers that are bad answers. Especially: bad answers for you.
Recognizing a wrong answer is the easy part. Taking a dozen or so "right" answers and selecting and condensing them into the best answer that makes the most sense for your programming context is the hardest part.
It is astonishingly easy to accrue a tremendous amount of technical debt because you just chained up solution after solution into a grotesque mix of "works, but could explode any minute".
- psykovsky 12y agoIsn't that said using fancy words on ALL of the software licenses, that it "works, but could explode any minute"? I could swear that was the definition of software. ;)