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[andrewducker]

[Poll #1590077]

Comments

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[x] Given I am at times paralysed by over-thinking, encouragement to 'build the first one to throw away' would be a happy thing.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

May I interest you in a motto ? 'The simplest thing that might posibly work' is where I try to start.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yebbut... 'Is the thing I'm thinking of the simplest one? Hm. There's going to be a corner-case I've not thought about, so that approach will be wrong. Perhaps the answer is on the Internet? And it'll probably need to scale. Where's the scaling book? Ok, so if I re-architect all this other stuff, then that simple answer may well work. Unless there's something else I've not considered... Oh. Lunchtime!'

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

All fair enough. 'Might possibly' is intended to be license to ignore all that stuff till it is proved to be a problem (or the universe ends, whichever is the sooner).

But, as you say, you need to be clear that you plan to chuck it away and build a better one if you need to.