Got this one on my desk. Doing things “the right way” is the Achilles heel of technical types. To combat this particular bit of insanity, I always try to start from “what’s the minimum cost path that allows me to move forward?”
I think it’s a rather similar problem and a similar issue, except that what the OP sees as “the right way”, I see as over engineering the solution. OrphanWilde has the better method for real life.
XKCD: The General Problem—http://xkcd.com/974/
Got this one on my desk. Doing things “the right way” is the Achilles heel of technical types. To combat this particular bit of insanity, I always try to start from “what’s the minimum cost path that allows me to move forward?”
I think the comic is describing a rather different problem.
I think it’s a rather similar problem and a similar issue, except that what the OP sees as “the right way”, I see as over engineering the solution. OrphanWilde has the better method for real life.