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Where beautiful plans go to meet reality, deadlines, and other people's code.
means The actual work of building or carrying out a plan, as opposed to just describing it.
from Traces back to Latin 'implere' meaning to fill up or fulfill, via 'implementum' (a filling or stuffing). It entered English through legal and administrative Latin, where 'implementa' referred to the tools or things needed to carry out a task — so the word has always been about the gap between having something in mind and having the actual stuff to make it happen.
- gap size
- inversely proportional to how good the meeting went
- hardest part
- not the logic, the edge cases nobody mentioned
- true test
- whether the spec survives contact with users
- golden rule
- the diagram always lied a little