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I've come to realize it's an addiction/urge, that's the only /reasonable/ answer I can give.

• seanp2k2 11y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle """ Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others (often reworded as "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept"). """
  • taneq 11y ago
    Didn't we decide later that that's a bad idea? I mean, in the early days of the web, Internet Explorer was the very embodiment of this principle and a couple of decades later the internet is still full of the resulting non-standard crud.
    • lomnakkus 11y ago
      Yes we did. It can also lead to really surprising security issues in protocol-land where such "liberalism" interacts badly with security-sensitive portions of protocols. (Security is non-trivial and mostly there are very good reasons that things are exactly as they are in such protocols.)