Technical debt is bad, but (more often than not) optimal.
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Young programmers are better off not starting with the theoretical foundations of CS, but by eagerly writing crappy programs.
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That sounds obvious, doesn't it? And yet few if any schools and universities can bring themselves to teach programming this way.
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Are there really computer science majors who haven’t already been programmers for 10+ years?
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Oh dude. You have no idea how many angry people there are on Twitter who are eager to answer that for you.
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I’m sure you’re right. But how many art majors made their first pencil sketch at 18?
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I'm not disagreeing with you so much as explaining that this is a topic some people have very strong political beliefs about.
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The objection is factual, not political. Few CS undergrads have deep experience with programming before school.
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That may well be true today. Didn’t feel like the case in early 90s. Did we stop teaching programming in schools? Why?
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Please define technical debt
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Import from india ?
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Thoughts on unit testing?
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The subpar plan you follow is better than the perfect plan you don't follow
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@AustenAllred But that would mean hard work. Why work hard when you can block competition with ancient lawsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Doesn't seem optimal for an acquiring co. May not be able (or don't want to) retain programmer who wrote code only he/she would understand
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Makes sense that if debt is good for the economy, it's similar in personal & tech:https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/opinion/paul-krugman-debt-is-good-for-the-economy.html …
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The fact that financial debt and technical debt are both called debt doesn't indicate that they behave similarly. It's a fallacy.
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Tech debt achieves quicker time to market for product f(x) and biz results. We pay more for it later than doing it right today.
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