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  1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 02:49:04 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    How I doom almost every personal project I start to work on: "Oh, I could generalize this."
    Monday, 10-Jun-2019 02:49:04 UTC from web permalink
    • Dr. Edward Morbius :o:, Antón, rgggn and desttinghim like this.
    • mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 02:52:12 UTC mangeurdenuage mangeurdenuage
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      What do you mean by this ?
      Monday, 10-Jun-2019 02:52:12 UTC permalink
    • Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 03:21:51 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
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      • mangeurdenuage
      @mangeurdenuage Any solution to any problem can be viewed as a specific application of some more general principle, recursively. If you first write that more general program, and then write the program you were _going_ to write in terms of that general program, then it might be useful for a larger class of problems, and more interesting to write (...also recursively). And it may also take orders of magnitude longer to write, and require more research, and possibly never get written.

      As a professional, one learns to identify and avoid this problem, unless generalization is warranted (perhaps through incremental development). Yet at home, I fail to control myself. Which leads to a whole lot of interesting research, and a whole lot of incomplete projects.
      Monday, 10-Jun-2019 03:21:51 UTC permalink
    • Alexandre Oliva (lxoliva)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 07:46:53 UTC Alexandre Oliva Alexandre Oliva
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      reminded me of that classic xkcd on "passing the salt". sorry, no link handy
      Monday, 10-Jun-2019 07:46:53 UTC permalink
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    • mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 16:39:40 UTC mangeurdenuage mangeurdenuage
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      Thank you for the explanation :)
      Monday, 10-Jun-2019 16:39:40 UTC permalink

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