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Deadlines are poisson for code quality.

I'm pretty sure that much of the code I write today will still be in use ten years from now. There's no point worrying about arbitrary deadlines; in the long run it doesn't matter if the feature was done on time or a month late. What does matter is, for example, wheter all possible error conditions are handled by my code.

Fortunately I'm in a position where I can decide not to have deadlines.



Lovely typo - I am sure such code might show a "poisson" distribution :)


Sounds fishy - I don't buy it.




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