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Just sent to my group at work:

"There's a fix here involving [a simple sounding solution], but there's a lot of other configs to change to do that and anyway winter is coming up and won't the yaks get cold."

Note timestamp on this post. I can clean up after this on Monday.

Date: 2010-10-02 02:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/cgull_/
I'm inordinately fond of the concept of shaving yaks (obviously), but I'm now in some kind of serious debt to you for mentioning technical debt-- this concept beautifully expresses the hole my new company is digging itself into (we got acquired recently).

Date: 2010-10-02 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] londo.livejournal.com
Cheers, and you're most welcome.

The concept has been around for a while, but McConnell really hit it out of the park with that article, which is possibly the most useful bit I've seen on software engineering in my entire career.

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