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Re:The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard by akvadrako on Friday November 23, 2018 @11:15PM (#18520417)
You're complaining about 4 hours? If you can spend 4 hours to make your code easier to understand, that's very likely to save someone 4 hours down the road.

When it's 4 days or 4 months, then it becomes an issue.

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Re:The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard by GordonS on Saturday November 24, 2018 @03:32PM (#18523842)
Of course I'm not complaining about a once-in-a-lifetime 4 hours - I mean, I do this all the time!
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Re:The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard by akvadrako on Saturday November 24, 2018 @10:20PM (#18525259)
I see. Well I used to have a tendency to start refactoring something, then see it’ll be easier if I refactor another part and so on.

I would dig myself into a well so deep it might take a month to crawl out of before my code is useable again, but it would be a huge waste to stop.

If you’ve only invested 4 hours it doesn’t seem that bad.

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