[HN Gopher] Don't Let Perfectionism Stall Your Software Developm...
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       Don't Let Perfectionism Stall Your Software Development Project
        
       Author : philk10
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2024-04-08 20:05 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | FrankWilhoit wrote:
       | The difficulty is that we have reached a point where any advocacy
       | for correctness is branded as "perfectionism".
        
         | willcipriano wrote:
         | You can't know if it's correct until the customer tells you it
         | is.
         | 
         | If they don't use it, it doesn't matter if you did a good job.
         | 
         | Just get something in front of them. Then work to improve.
        
           | earthling8118 wrote:
           | I'm tired of this mentality and all of the broken things it
           | produces. Obviously it's important that it works for the
           | people using it. That doesn't mean we should all shovel a
           | bunch of crap together and sell it like it's some perfectly
           | polished creation. Find a balance between the two extremes.
        
             | willcipriano wrote:
             | The people who put the spec together are likely morons, the
             | first thing you build is wrong no matter what you do. You
             | can either be wrong or slow and wrong.
        
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