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I 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 a
by mbrock 10y ago
I 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.