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"Quick 'n Dirty" vs. "Correct and Proper"?

Posted by Cliff on from the which-way-would-you-go dept.

A not-so Anonymous Coward enters this query: "I keep finding myself on projects where a quick and dirty solution will bring in money for the company, and a correct (ie, properly documented, well engineered, process followed, etc) solution will get us left in the dust. When the Q&D solution succeeds, I'm left trying to explain why it can't be the FINAL solution (to PHBs and Marketroids that were fully informed of the situation prior to any work getting done). Most recently, work I did in record time was used to help bring in several large contracts, and then I found myself in hot water for not having followed process et al. So, to Slashdot: is it better to do the quick thing and greatly increase the chance of $uccess now, or to do the correct thing and avoid pain later (assuming there is money to pay for the pain later)?"

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  1. Passion is the key - if you're passionate, release by Jouster · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    You just found out that your father, who is in perfect health and has raised you for as long as you can remember, is not your real father. Your real father is somewhere, nobody knows where, and either dead or nearly so. The feeling that you get imagagining that scenario is the reason that I strive to ensure information never dies. It's why I cry when I see a house torn down, and it's why I cry when I think of the fathers of my chosen discipline dying off one-by-one, leaving behind only what programs and books they've managed to produce. And it's why I'm scared that one day I'll wake up and find that there's a piece of me, the fruit of my heart and mind, my program, my son, that, if I don't track it down, will be lost forever.

    Passion! Passion is the key! If we are passionate about everything we do, we leave behind a wake of people inspired by our passion, inspired not by what we've done but by *how we've done it*. Passion yields fruit so ripe, its benefactors need remember only our name, because they can but speak it to a person who has known us, and the passion comes alive from us through them! Passion, not persistence, not training--not any of those things, though they are certainly important. Nothing but passion can lead us through to a place where our name connotes the good, endorses the worthy, and gives rise to those not only capable of following in our footsteps, but with their *own* passion, born of ours, to do so right.

    Passion is the key. Be passionate now. If you aren't passionate about what you have written, if you aren't fighting the irresistible urge to hold it up high and have the world marvel at its brilliance and beauty... then you have failed, and you mustn't release that code.

  2. testing 1..2...3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello? This is just a test...

    1. Re:testing 1..2...3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      <troll>


      Hey, guess what?

      YOU FAIL TEH TEST!

      That's right. You failed the test because you didn't get the first post? How does it feel not to get the first post? Do you wish you would have gotten the first post? What would you have done had you FP'd? Would you have bought a new car? A new computer? Well, I guess you can stop dreaming because you didn't get the first post. Somebody else got the first post before you did. You got the second post. You were next to first. If you'd been a little quicker about it, maybe you could have gotten first post, but there's no use in talking about it now because you didn't get the first post. What are you going to do now? Are you going to go cower in the corner and cry because YOU FAIL TEH TEST? Are you going to continue reading this ./ troll? Are you going to respond to this troll? Are you going to RTFA? The choice is yours. Just keep one thing in mind...

      YOU FAIL TEH TEST!

      See ya round, sux0r.

      A.C.
      </troll>
  3. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You failed that shit like you failed your father, nancy-boy. Now go put on your makeup and cry yourself to sleep to the sound of your dildo vibrating in your ass.

    2. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      thanks for the advice but i've got the Whisper Elite model.

  4. blah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    blah

  5. ...and the oscar goes to by Elphin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...and the oscar goes to Jouster for "Post that brings tears welling in eyes"

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