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by dllthomas
4655 days ago
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Right, that's pretty much what I was talking about. Not so much something "officially blessed as a prototype" but "does this make sense at all?" experimentation shy of an MVP. I've heard "write it, throw it away, rewrite it" attributed to Knuth, and while that's overstating it a little you definitely learn things in your first attempt. |
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> The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. […] Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
But as someone on Ward's Wiki said http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PlanToThrowOneAway ,
> The corollary to this is that if you plan to throw one away, you will end up throwing away two.