[daniel-cussen]

Yeah so Don Knuth says if you want a measure of productivity add the amount of code that's written to the amount of code that's deleted. In the same vein, make one to throw away. Final concept from Knuth: 1 in 50 people have the "computer scientist's mindset".

[wanderr]

This is probably not what he had in mind, but I love make one to throw away, for experiments. Product and VPs often have a damn hard time wrapping their minds around it though. I saw it working with my own eyes! What do you mean we can’t ship it?! My latest product partners have no trouble understanding the value when they see that their experiments get shipped in half the time, it’s well worth it to get twice as many experiments out even if GA takes twice as long, because 2/3rds of experiments should fail anyway.