DEV Community

Discussion on: On usefulness over accuracy in dev – the broken clock conundrum.

Collapse
 
phlash profile image
Phil Ashby

This reference comes to mind:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_t...

which frequently applies to software where there is always some other way to achieve a goal, and knowing when to look again at how things are done is hard (hint - use an external property / fitness function like cost of ownership aka return on investment or happiness of the team maintaining stuff!)