← Back to context Comment by 4lx87 3 days ago It’s not a failure that resources were spent writing code that was not needed? 3 comments 4lx87 Reply gf000 3 days ago Maybe it was temporarily needed, but the assumptions around it has changed and now it's unneeded. Then people built on top of that not understanding that they could simplify the whole system, and only later was that option discovered.What would you keep from this? overfeed 3 days ago It's only a failure if perfect information was available at the time, an impossibility for most people. e12e 3 days ago Write one (system) to throw away...
gf000 3 days ago Maybe it was temporarily needed, but the assumptions around it has changed and now it's unneeded. Then people built on top of that not understanding that they could simplify the whole system, and only later was that option discovered.What would you keep from this?
overfeed 3 days ago It's only a failure if perfect information was available at the time, an impossibility for most people.
Maybe it was temporarily needed, but the assumptions around it has changed and now it's unneeded. Then people built on top of that not understanding that they could simplify the whole system, and only later was that option discovered.
What would you keep from this?
It's only a failure if perfect information was available at the time, an impossibility for most people.
Write one (system) to throw away...