Couple months back, someone posted how they lost a days work due to hard drive crash and had to redo it. It took them roughly 30 minutes.
Their point was the same as this article with a shorter time window. Knowing what to do, not how to do it, is 90% of the battle.
But that is counterintuitive to the lay observer of software. They think they know what to do, because they’ve got ideas, but feel inhibited because they don’t yet know how to achieve them. So they assume that their immediate hurdle must be the hard part of software development.
Their point was the same as this article with a shorter time window. Knowing what to do, not how to do it, is 90% of the battle.
But that is counterintuitive to the lay observer of software. They think they know what to do, because they’ve got ideas, but feel inhibited because they don’t yet know how to achieve them. So they assume that their immediate hurdle must be the hard part of software development.