{"id":10357,"date":"2014-12-21T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10357"},"modified":"2014-12-21T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:07:39","slug":"bad-code-isnt-technical-debt-its-an-unhedged-call-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/21\/bad-code-isnt-technical-debt-its-an-unhedged-call-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Code Isn&rsquo;t Technical Debt, It&rsquo;s an Unhedged Call Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.higherorderlogic.com\/2010\/07\/bad-code-isnt-technical-debt-its-an-unhedged-call-option\/\">Steve Freeman<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrmrcoleman\/status\/546599973853605889\">Dave DeLong<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.higherorderlogic.com\/2010\/07\/bad-code-isnt-technical-debt-its-an-unhedged-call-option\/\">\n<p>Call options are a better model than debt for cruddy code (without tests) because they capture the unpredictability of what we do. If I slap in an a feature without cleaning up then I get the benefit immediately, I collect the premium. If I never see that code again, then I&rsquo;m ahead and, in retrospect, it would have been foolish to have spent time cleaning it up.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if a radical new feature comes in that I have to do, all those quick fixes suddenly become very expensive to work with.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Freeman (via Dave DeLong): Call options are a better model than debt for cruddy code (without tests) because they capture the unpredictability of what we do. If I slap in an a feature without cleaning up then I get the benefit immediately, I collect the premium. If I never see that code again, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,27,71],"class_list":["post-10357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-craft","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10358,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions\/10358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}