Life On The Leading Edge
/via http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2013/08/28/faut-que-jte-dise-un-truc/ Life on the Leading (and yes, definitely Bleeding) Edge means that you’re always working around that *one* feature that doesn’t quite work the way you’d like it to. Read this, and tell me if it sounds familiar — 1. You start working on a new system. It’s important, so you can’t really just experiment with Bleeding Edge stuff, but you’ll use this relatively new framework (or library. or codebase. or whatever) that you really like. It’s been around for a while — not so long that it’s Old, and therefore UnCool — but long enough that it’s got most of the kinks worked out. Besides, it’s perfect for what you want to do. 2. The thing is, it is almost perfect for what you need. There’s this one feature that you wish it supported, but you can work around. So you — happily! — work around that feature 3. Over the next few months, it turns out that that one feature that you...
