Comment by wfunction
13 years ago
Is experience worth nothing?
Do you have to spend all your time and resources architecting the system poorly the first time, just to "prove" that you are wrong -- even though you knew it would happen before you even started coding?!
That's like telling an engineer to prove (by actually building it and subjecting it to a lot of stress) that the bridge he designed would be prone to collapsing before helping him find a better design!
It's just a simple fact about the signal-to-noise ratio on a public Q&A site. Almost all optimization questions will be premature optimization questions. Including any evidence that you know what you're doing makes your question stand out. But just claiming to know what you're doing is indistinguishable from a common form of noob arrogance.