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		jeffreygoesto on April 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014) The hardest part is finding out what _not_ to code, either before (design) or after (learn from prototype or the previous iteration) having written some.

thunderbong on April 21, 2024 [–]

No code is faster than no code!

layer8 on April 21, 2024 | [–]

Sometimes you have to write it to understand why you shouldn’t have written it.

LoganDark on April 21, 2024 | | [–]

Sometimes you knew you shouldn't have written it and then did so anyway.

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