If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly

Re:If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly by ctdonath on Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:39PM (#11264500)

He also wrote it as: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least definitively inaccurate.

I've paraphrased it as if I'm going to be wrong, I shall strive to be DEFINITIVELY wrong which has proven very helpful advice.

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Re:If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly by Terr_ on Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:54PM (#11264549)

I find myself thinking of the different between:

"Look at this cool code-trick I found... Maybe it's good?"

"Look at this cool code-trick I found... Warning: Despite the cool part, it actually contains several subtle and horrifying flaws and no sane person should ever trust it in production."

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