Quote of the day:

Quote of the day:

"More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity." -W.A. Wulf

If you haven't measured it, you're not optimizing -- you're just following your preconceptions. Preconceptions probably created for a different time with different systems and different trade-offs.

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  1. Bjarke Ebert27 December 2013 at 13:06

    A serious contender for that title is crappy design made in the name of generality.
    Unnecessary indirections, interfaces, factories, "dependency injections" etc., to the point where the only way to understand the code is to single-step through.

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  2. Lars Clausen28 December 2013 at 02:16

    Oh, boy, yes. That's one reason to launch-and-iterate -- staying with what's needed for the first launch avoids overgeneralization. Unfortunately, there's no good way to measure when generalization is needed.

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