Re: Debouncing....at About 1Mhz - Uobtanium Obtained ;-)

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:05:43 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:50:44 -0800, John Larkin
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:25:59 -0700, Jim Thompson
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When I feel confused I drinks a glass of wine ;-)

...Jim Thompson


One of the great engineering virtues is laziness. I consider a circuit
or a piece of code or a mechanism and say "that's going to be way too
much work" so I put it off for a while, or talk to somebody about it.
Usually something simpler emerges. Too many people, cursed with excess
energy, just plow ahead and implement the first idea they have. And
when it turns out to have bugs, as complex things will, they add stuff
to repair the bugs.

John

I've been known to toss designs that I had been working for
weeks/months, because of too many "patches".

Panics the hell out of clients until they see the results of a clean
start.

...Jim Thompson


It takes guts to dump something you've put three months into. Even if
the new thing would be better and finished sooner. It's even more
difficult in a team design, where peer pressure exists. But yeah, I'll
consider dumping a design that's far along, even finished, when a
better or simpler idea pops up, or when the original starts creaking
of its own weight.

That's why it's better to not start too soon, to play with ideas for a
while at the start.

John

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