Ask HN: What are the biggest causes for procrastination on software development?

Posted by ishikawa on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:07AM
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Re:Ask HN: What are the biggest causes for procrastination o... by through on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:27AM (#18336751)

It depends on the context. Personally, the trigger points are:

- ever evolving problem domain research manifesting as architectural doubt

- underspecification

- unforeseen integration issues with host API or environment (pattern collision, resource collision)

- F.O.M.O i.e. ego corrupted view of the problem

- cognitive fatigue

I’m sure the list is as endless and diverse as the people who make software...

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Re:Ask HN: What are the biggest causes for procrastination o... by ishikawa on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:40AM (#18337705)

thanks! my point on it is related to when you really get stuck, stopped maybe overthinking. Your first point is also one common I see, related to architectural doubt.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the biggest causes for procrastination o... by ishikawa on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:47AM (#18337826)

Does anyone know why this post does not appear on "ask" section? I thought it was just needed to start it with "Ask HN:" on submit.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the biggest causes for procrastination o... by cimmanom on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @05:58PM (#18341634)

Ask seems to get updated in batches. Maybe the mods curate them or something?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the biggest causes for procrastination o... by ishikawa on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:34AM (#18344547)

Thanks! I didn't know about that. Now it is listed.

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