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I now think its ok to write code in a "non optimal" way if it makes it easier for the entire team to work with.

Perhaps this wasn't the optimal exit for the Picnik team, but it was pretty damn good.-mike harrington

The W3C appears to be willing to travel the Himalayas of suboptimal to find it.

When did the business world/lawyers decide this was the optimal legal response to customers?

It is not possible to present an arbitrary block of data in a normalized, optimal form, and have CSS render it any way you want.

I think this is for the same reason that all minimax algos assume optimal play by the opponent: if you assume optimal and they play less than so, it can only work in your favor.

But I doubt you can say things like "it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition" without having some actual data backing you up.

Second, the rest of the design was created specifically for the optimal application of the epoxy spray that prevents your drink from developing a metallic taste.

Examples are solving sudoku, the zebra puzzle, SAT solving, optimal register allocation and many others.

For example, if there are a few students who learn "too fast", the optimal business solution for an education provider might be to say, "fuck 'em, 5% of the students isn't where my money is coming from".

"Soylent is perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition.

Work, pain, and adversity are an integral part of life and it is no loss - indeed, it is great gain - to spend some years doing things you don't necessarily love if they help shape your character in a strong way and if they help you develop skill sets that you can later apply in a more optimal way.

In that case, the debt vanishes and the noteholder becomes an equity holder and everybody wins in terms of optimal positioning of their respective stakes in the venture: founders have gotten their cheap stock that they can hold until a liquidity event, at which time they can sell typically for long-term capital gains and with no intervening taxes to pay; noteholders have gotten their equity stakes with all protections and with no-less-favorable pricing than that offered to the preferred stock investors who presumably have negotiated a good, arms-length deal for themselves; the company avoids a too-early high repricing of its stock so it can continue to offer good incentives to new team members as they join; and the company does not usually have to fool with 409A valuations or with other strings and formalities attending the bringing in of investors via equity rounds.