I'm a premature optimizer

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Published on 2011-02-08T02:38:43Z Indexed on 2011/02/08 7:33 UTC
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I work in a small sized software/web development company.

I have gotten into the habit of optimizing prematurely, I know it is evil and promotes bad code... But I have been working at this firm for a long while and I have deemed this as a necessary evil.

It has never caused me an issue so far in the past, but it might if I get partners or a successor.

The point of this long-winded speech is that, should I change my evil practices to 'save face' and to help out in the future?

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