Re:A look at the 10x paradigm
by zo1 on Monday July 04, 2016 @03:11PM
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There is probably a good middle ground. If it's a "once off" sort of task, then there is no need to over-engineer it to perfection.
The sweet spot has a nice tradeoff between extra-time spent, and ease of migrating to a full-blown complicated and extensible solution. For me, I generally write my code in that middle ground. Stubbing out parts of my solution and then coming back to fill it in. In that sense, having separate functions with clearly-defined input/outputs or portions of work, aides me in completing my solution.
The sweet spot has a nice tradeoff between extra-time spent, and ease of migrating to a full-blown complicated and extensible solution. For me, I generally write my code in that middle ground. Stubbing out parts of my solution and then coming back to fill it in. In that sense, having separate functions with clearly-defined input/outputs or portions of work, aides me in completing my solution.