All of the trickiest software I ever wrote was preceded by an exhaustive explana...

		flerchin on Nov 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever sol... All of the trickiest software I ever wrote was preceded by an exhaustive explanation to management to let me write it. In the end, the trick was political, not technical. I could single-line-summary any of the changes and they would sound absolutely banal to this crowd.