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- abbreviation software engineering, informal Abbreviation of You ain't (aren't)
gonna need it. (It is areminder tosoftware developers not to addfunctionality tosoftware until it isrequired .)
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In real-world applications is mostly impossible to implement an ideal solution, trying to solve by one principle you can break another, such as YAGNI or over design …
ASP.NET Weblogs 2009
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There's an argument to be made for applying YAGNI principles to some of your design but I don't know if data cleansing is one of those.
SQLblog.com - The SQL Server blog spot on the web AllenMWhite 2010
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The techniques we used were YAGNI, KISS, DRY, "the simplest thing that could possibly work", and evolutionary design. sharpoverride wrote re: Context and Best Practices
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I'm normally coding librar ies, where YAGNI is ofte [...]
Planet Python 2009
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I'm normally coding librar ies, where YAGNI is ofte [...]
Planet Python 2009
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I'm normally coding librar ies, where YAGNI is ofte [...]
Planet Python 2009
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I'm normally coding librar ies, where YAGNI is ofte [...]
Planet Python 2009
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I'm normally coding librar ies, where YAGNI is ofte [...]
Planet Python 2009
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It's also simple, and practical, so you won't be offending the YAGNI police.
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I'm normally coding librar ies, where YAGNI is ofte [...]
Planet Python 2009
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YAGNI—You Ain’t Gonna Need It—is a rule that says you shouldn’t add a feature just because it might be useful in the future—only write code when it solves a direct problem.
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