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Re:Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you. by apower on Thursday July 29, 2010 @12:07PM (#1558026)
What does it mean?
Re:Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you. by jtheory on Friday July 30, 2010 @11:14AM (#1561348)
If you're trying to make it perfect, you'll waste all of your time in tiny unimportant details (and you won't even manage to make something good). There are a lot of would-be writers with beautifully polished first chapters, and nothing else. Software is the same.

Likewise with making it good -- everything takes longer than estimated, and so life will likely intervene to stop you working before you even have anything working at all.

Lesson: get it working first (however badly), and evolve it from there.

Re:Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you. by run4yourlives on Thursday July 29, 2010 @01:00PM (#1558218)
Just do it, basically.