{"id":158,"date":"2010-07-03T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=158"},"modified":"2010-07-03T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T14:34:00","slug":"158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markbernstein.org\/Dec0701\/ANeoVictorianResponsetoYAG.html\">Mark Bernstein<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s easy to add generality to a spec. It makes you look really smart, especially when someone else is going to do the coding. But too much generality too soon makes the code age prematurely; you can get old, brittle, confusing code that looks like it&#8217;s yellowed with age, even though it&#8217;s not even finished yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Bernstein : It&#8217;s easy to add generality to a spec. It makes you look really smart, especially when someone else is going to do the coding. But too much generality too soon makes the code age prematurely; you can get old, brittle, confusing code that looks like it&#8217;s yellowed with age, even though it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,398],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abstraction","tag-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}