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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Future Thinking is Future Trashing</h1>
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2019-06-21
<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/things-i-learnt/">#things i learnt</a>
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<p>When developers try to solve a problem, they sometimes try to find a way that
will solve all the problems, including the ones that may appear in the future.</p>
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<p>Trying to solve the problems that will appear in the future comes with a hefty
tax: future problems future will never come -- and, believe me, they will
<em>never</em> come -- and you'll end up either having to maintain a huge behemoth of
code that will never be fully used or you'll end up rewriting the whole thing
'cause there is a shitton of unused stuff.</p>
<p>Solve the problem you have right now. Then solve the next one. And the next
one. At one point, you'll realize there is a pattern emerging from those
solutions and <em>then</em> you'll find your &quot;solve everything&quot;. This pattern is the
<em>abstraction</em> you're looking for and <em>then</em> you'll be able to solve it in a
simple way.</p>
<p>As Steve Jobs once said &quot;You can't connect the dots looking forward, only
backwards&quot;.</p>
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&lt;&lt; <a href="&#x2F;books&#x2F;things-i-learnt&#x2F;throw-away">Be Ready To Throw Your Code Away</a>
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