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by nanny
3816 days ago
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>OK, but that was never on the table, though. What I described isn't even possible to manifest, and even if you back it down to what is at least sort of possible, you don't have the resources to manifest it before you simply run out due to lack of customers. You're not really taking on "debt" if you fail to manifest that, any more than you are taking on "debt" if you fail to make every possible dollar you could if you perfectly correctly harnessed your skills and made the perfect deals. I don't think that's such a problem, though. The "perfect" codebase should be the baseline to which you compare your current debt. Just like in real life, you take on some debt to have a basic standard of living. You might have a mortgage or maybe a car loan or some minor credit card debt, and you're normally always working on paying a little bit of that off. In a perfect world you'd want no debt at all, just like in a perfect codebase. But, a small amount is natural. It's only when it gets unruly and unmanageable that it becomes a problem. --- Aside, the first and last lines of your comment reminded of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859383 |
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What I described isn't perfect; it's impossible. It destroys the utility of the idea of technical debt if that's the baseline, because it means that all choices are between "really bad" and "really bad".
"Aside, the first and last lines of your comment reminded of this post:"
Oh, certainly. But people do tend to assume that all comments that are not completely complimentary are intrinsically disagreement, and, well, let's be honest... statistically, it's true, so it's hard to be too annoyed that people's brains make that inference by default.