Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Yeah. It's definitely a balance. And it's a "balance" that comes both from general experience and knowledge of your particular customers' or target userbase's proclivities.
One thing that helps with tempering a tendency towards sacrificing adequate delivery-speed on the altar of future-proofing is realizing that "future-proofing" is often an stand-in for "idiot-proofing" ...and that there will always be a better idiot out there. =)
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Yeah. It's definitely a balance. And it's a "balance" that comes both from general experience and knowledge of your particular customers' or target userbase's proclivities.
One thing that helps with tempering a tendency towards sacrificing adequate delivery-speed on the altar of future-proofing is realizing that "future-proofing" is often an stand-in for "idiot-proofing" ...and that there will always be a better idiot out there. =)