generality

Sometimes the generality of "business guy" takes the fall with that.

To me, the hygiene argument doesn't make up for the extra characters and loss of generality.

Broadly speaking: "Make lots of bets, lose lots of bets, but have some money invested in [without loss of generality: Google]" is, in broad strokes, the model.

Because of this, code is often written to the specific problem with little regard for generality, and only rarely re-used.

Typical client: a company you've never heard of in Chicago which does, without loss of generality, weatherproofing.

We can assumably assign proxies to any level of generality or specification.

And this is where the Cython solution has some problems – sure, you can make it pretty fast, but in doing so, you lose the generality that the original Python code had, and your code becomes as monomorphic as C.

Generality is good if it buys you anything practical, but my approach has been to avoid excess generality unless it has a practical benefit.