{"id":484,"date":"2004-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/11\/18\/417\/"},"modified":"2004-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-17T23:00:00","slug":"417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/11\/18\/417\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/usa.html\">Made in USA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Systematic&#8220; is the last word I&#8217;d use to describe the way good programmers write software. Code is not something they assemble painstakingly after careful planning, like the pyramids. It&#8217;s something they plunge into, working fast and constantly changing their minds, like a charcoal sketch.<\/p>\n<p>In software, paradoxical as it sounds, good craftsmanship means working fast. If you work slowly and meticulously, you merely end up with a very fine implementation of your initial, mistaken idea. Working slowly and meticulously is premature optimization. Better to get a prototype done fast, and see what new ideas it gives you.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham &#8211; Made in USA: &#8222;Systematic&#8220; is the last word I&#8217;d use to describe the way good programmers write software. Code is not something they assemble painstakingly after careful planning, like the pyramids. It&#8217;s something they plunge into, working fast and constantly changing their minds, like a charcoal sketch. In software, paradoxical as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}