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		mandevil 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GUIs are built at least 2.5 times "Plan to throw one away. You will anyhow."- Fred Brooks, _Mythical Man Month_ A software engineering book written decades before I was born- my college assigned us the 25th Anniversary Edition- and yet I re-read it every few years and find some new way to apply its lessons to my current problems.

mpweiher 10 months ago [–]

"If you plan to throw away one, you will throw away two" -- Craig Zerouni, via Programming Pearls: Bumper Sticker Computer Science

https://moss.cs.iit.edu/cs100/Bentley_BumperSticker.pdf

actionfromafar 10 months ago | | [–]

Is that better or worse? (Let's shelve for a minute if worse is better.)

js8 10 months ago | | [–]

Maybe you will, but maybe not. Hence the title - 2.5 attempts sounds about right.

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