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by _tom_ 1386 days ago
It's frequently faster. Half-assed designs will cost you time forever.
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Let's not start throwing pejoratives around, there is nothing half-assed about having an idea how your design will work before you blindly start coding probably-wrong stuff.

I've also found having apparent time-luxury to be a rather paradoxical thing, the more of it you have, the more people start spending it by creating bureaucracy and busy-work. It never gets spent how you expect it to be spent.