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Re:Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other kn... by fouc on Saturday May 05, 2018 @10:10PM (#17004938)
Trying to write down your thoughts can be considered a form of interruption too. It's a bit of a trade off or risk control. How much time to conceptualize it versus interrupting the conceptualization and writing down an inferior version of the idea?

Iteration does help improve on the inferior version, but the risk is that you might be iterating on a local maximum instead of the more global maximum you could've conceptualized.

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