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Re:If it's a nice problem to have, don't solve it now by davnicwil on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:30PM (#24111044)
Yeah, your first paragraph is spot on. It's pretty much exactly what I was going to reply to IanCal. Instead I'll just +1 it.

On your second paragraph, 100% agreed. This is really just a useful prioritization heuristic, not a rule, and in some cases other considerations should and will override it.

It's mainly useful just to deliberately and routinely check that instinct to go deep on whatever you're working on when there's a lot of breadth to cover that's more important to get done first.

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Re:If it's a nice problem to have, don't solve it now by IanCal on Monday August 10, 2020 @03:33PM (#24113126)
Whether the problem is nice to have or not is entirely orthoganal to how important it is to solve.

"Is this feature important, or a nice to have" is the question they want, not "is this problem nice to have?".

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