{"id":371,"date":"2016-08-24T12:06:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/?p=371"},"modified":"2016-08-24T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T03:02:53","slug":"towards-an-understanding-of-technical-debt-laughing-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/2016\/08\/24\/towards-an-understanding-of-technical-debt-laughing-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards an understanding of technical debt &#8211; Laughing Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve spent the last few years rather flippantly stating, \u201cTechnical debt doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What I was trying to say was, \u201cI\u2019m deeply uncomfortable with how our industry talks about this thing, I think it\u2019s probably harmful, but I don\u2019t know quite how to express what I mean. Also, given that everyone seems to be really focused on this tech debt concept, I\u2019m kind of worried that the problem is me, not the term or the industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When I first heard Peter Norvig say, \u201cAll code is liability\u201d, that felt closer to right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmeme.org\/2016\/01\/10\/towards-an-understanding-of-technical-debt\/\">Towards an understanding of technical debt &#8211; Laughing Meme<\/a><br \/>\n<!-- cache clear --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve spent the last few years rather flippantly stating, \u201cTechnical debt doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d What I was trying to say was, \u201cI\u2019m deeply uncomfortable with how our industry talks about this thing, I think it\u2019s probably harmful, but I don\u2019t know quite how to express what I mean. Also, given that everyone seems to be really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/2016\/08\/24\/towards-an-understanding-of-technical-debt-laughing-meme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Towards an understanding of technical debt &#8211; Laughing Meme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,5],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links","category-programming","tag-technical-debt","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/george.hotelling.net\/91percent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}