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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 23:08:23 JST Aral Balkan

   Me: Ah, this should only take a moment to implement…

   Also me, many moments and refactorings later: Oh no, simply relying on inheritance here is too confusing, clearly I must make this an abstract class to clarify my intent…

   PS. Jokes aside, things taking longer than you think isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It might just mean you care about how maintainable your code is. Future You will thank you one day for not rushing through it. (At least he fucking better.)

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 23:16:27 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Skyglobe

     @skyglobe Sounds about right :)

   • Skyglobe (skyglobe@hostux.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 23:16:28 JST Skyglobe

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     @aral

     Me: "This project is going to be a bloodbath...". Turns out to be easier than expected.

     Also me: "We did something similar a while ago, this should be doable". Turns out to be a bloodbath.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 02:33:02 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Tushar Chauhan

     @tchauhan Not a problem :)

   • Tushar Chauhan (tchauhan@mastodon.mit.edu)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 02:33:03 JST Tushar Chauhan

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     @aral Why is an abstract class a problem ? Coming from C++ it is the bread and butter of any project, big or small(ish) :D

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 02:37:38 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Tom Boutell

     @boutell Oh, indeed. I ALWAYS copy and paste and only refactor if, by the time I’m done with it, there actually is any redundancy left.

     Premature refactoring is as bad as premature optimisation :)

   • Tom Boutell (boutell@toot.cat)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 02:37:39 JST Tom Boutell

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     @aral I feel this. But also I’m a believer in doing the expedient thing the first three times I see a problem. If I try to perfect and generalize too soon, I usually make something less suited to the next occurrence than I expected.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 06:17:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Pete Prodoehl 🍕

     @rasterweb Ditto :)

   • Pete Prodoehl 🍕 (rasterweb@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 06:17:54 JST Pete Prodoehl 🍕

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     @aral I’ve been doing this shit for decades and the one thing I’ve learned is that I’m terrible at estimating how long something will take.