Temporary Fixes Are Permanent Fixes
Posted in Development
A somber reminder that temporary (aka “quick and dirty”) fixes almost always become permanent:
/*
* Note: this problem may have been fixed already.
* I stopped using the session array method for handling things.
* This may have fixed it. I’ll test later.
*/
And “later” never came…
Scott Muc
on June 11, 2009
Sad yet so true. I've been guilty of that so many times. I refuse to do a quick hack now, but it usually ends up in an argument where someone says "getting it out is the priority". My usual rebuke is to say "agreed, but let's not deploy crap".