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Best advice I ever got from any engineer that actually caused me to start completing projects was "complicate as necessary, not as desired..."
by chrismarlow9 11y ago
Best advice I ever got from any engineer that actually caused me to start completing projects was "complicate as necessary, not as desired..."
- jfarmer 11y agoAnd unless an engineer is psychic, this usually results in better, more robust products. Bonus! :D
- curiousjorge 11y agocan you elaborate what that quote means?
- WorldWideWayne 11y agoIt means do only what is needed. If you do anything extra, you could be wasting your effort and/or causing problems. Doing just what is needed is sometimes difficult for developers. I have made the mistake of spending too much time slavishly implementing some pattern only to figure out later that it was just serving my need to implement the pattern, versus just getting the job done with a simple procedural script.