* Writing a blog post. * Blog post references a tweet storm of mine. * "Might as well send people to my site, not Twitter. Let's figure out how to archive tweetstorms." * "Oh wait, sometimes the tweetstorms comment on other people's tweets... just embed those."
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* "You know, now that you're downloading all your tweets, you should really have a way to download all your HN comments." * "Oh you did, but it's in a gist and the code quality is terrible. Let's upgrade that." * "Good, now that that is working, let's fully automate /wc update."
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I don’t think it’s “not meandering” so much as “meandering the appropriate amount”. What is the appropriate amount? Sir I’m afraid that’s above my pay grade
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The appropriate amount is usually zero. Part of the skill of a good engineer is to spot rabbit holes and unnecessary features (dreamed up in premature response to a possible future), and to slash them. YAGNI, again and again. The compounding time savings enable “shipping fast”.
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in startup engineering, it's critical to find ways to break up a project into 50 pieces -- and it's OK to keep finding more -- but you _have_ to identify the most important ones to ship and ship those
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I find myself continuously talking about this: even very experienced engineers are often stunned by the amount of things which need doing! but it's not a bad thing to have more ideas than can be done
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Fixception is tricky
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Suppressing the itch to rewrite
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Haha, funny you would tweet this. I underwent something similar recently.
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