Well At Least It's Working

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Well At Least It's Working

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That magnificent dragon app you've been architecting in your head for six months? Yeah, it somehow shipped as the Chrome dinosaur game. The gap between our grand technical visions and what we actually manage to implement is the most reliable constant in software development. Still counts as a finished project though, right? Just tell the stakeholders it's "an elegant solution optimized for resource constraints."

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