[obie]

"Diving debt into reckless/prudent and deliberate/inadvertent implies a quadrant, and I've only discussed three cells. So is there such a thing as prudent-inadvertent debt? Although such a thing sounds odd, I believe that it is - and it's not just common but inevitable for teams that are excellent designers."

The concept of prudent-inadvertent debt was new to me but immediately made sense.

[olliesaunders]

I often find I have an urge to write something a certain way, sometimes one that is different from best practice. I take the time to evaluate the results of what I do. Sometimes I look back at something and go, "I should have stuck to best practice," but increasingly I go, "I realize now the reason why it made sense not to follow best practice."

[j_baker]

I like Rands's definitition of best practice:

"A phrase used to convince you to do something different that assumes you don’t actually want to know why it’s a better approach."

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/07/13/the_words_y...

[j_baker]

I believe Steve McConnell calls this long-term technical debt because it kind of tends to creep up on you.