New chapter: Futuring thinking is future trashing

content/books/things-i-learnt/_index.md

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 	* [Make Tests That You Know How To Run on the Command line](tests-in-the-command-line)
 	* [Be Ready To Throw Your Code Away](throw-away)
 	* [Good Languages Come With Tests](languages-tests)
+	* [Future Think Is Future Trashing](future-trashing)

content/books/things-i-learnt/future-trashing/index.md

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+title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Future Thinking is Future Trashing"
+date = 2019-06-21
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "design", "solution"]
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+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.
+
+<!-- more -->
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+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 _never_
+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.
+
+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 _then_ you'll find your "solve everything". This pattern is the
+_abstraction_ you're looking for and _then_ you'll be able to solve it in a
+simple way.
+
+{{ chapters(prev_chapter_link="/books/things-i-learnt/languages-tests", prev_chapter_title="Good Languages Come With Tests") }}

content/books/things-i-learnt/languages-tests/index.md

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 support and easier access but, again, when they are there from the start, the
 start is better and the final result is better.
 
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