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I favorited your comment so I can point people to it who have trouble grasping "worse is better". This is a much better example than clos vs scheme or linux vs
by skrebbel 10y ago
I favorited your comment so I can point people to it who have trouble grasping "worse is better". This is a much better example than clos vs scheme or linux vs microkernels.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIt is a good example indeed. Though when dealing with people who reject "worse is better", remember that some people may not grasp the idea, but others may grasp it very well and just consider it a bad thing - a problem to work around.
- skrebbel 10y agoGood point. I think the latter opinion is a very valid opinion to be had. And often it's also something you can agree to disagree about.
- mbrock 10y agoI mentioned "Worse is Better" on this site a few days ago and received this comment: > "Worse is better" has nothing to do with it. Stop saying it every time anything you think is bad comes up. It's incredibly arrogant, the way people basically spam "worse is better" like they're in Twitch chat every time C, Unix, HTTP, or anything else that they perceive as imperfect comes up. It didn't occur to me that I was being offensive.
- WhitneyLand 10y agoYou're not being offensive. It's an important, non-obvious, under taught engineering principle. I understand the phenomenon he's describing and it's unfortunate he can't tell the difference.