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This is silly. Your argument is still "It's a bottle therefor stop making a big deal about it" - it's someone's job to care about it. They explain the problem t
by staticassertion 9y ago
This is silly. Your argument is still "It's a bottle therefor stop making a big deal about it" - it's someone's job to care about it. They explain the problem they set out to solve, how they solved it, a background to how these problems are solved (I don't know shit about design, so the "less but better" reference is actually interesting).
If you want to say "It's marketing" no shit, anything any company publishes ends up going through marketing at some point. Every tech blog a company has is marketing. Who cares?
- zichy 9y agoIt's more about being pretentious. If you show me a nice program you coded, I'd say "that's cool". If you show me a nice program you coded and tell me that you've been inspired by John Backus, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, I'd say "yeah well it's still a program".
- ckastner 9y agoThank you -- that's exactly how I feel about the Braun reference. The "program" here being one of the simplest imaginable, with literally thousands of years of prior art.
- staticassertion 9y agoWhat if they actually were inspired by one of them? Why not give some background and context to a crowd that may not be familiar with various icons?
- ckastner 9y agoNo. My argument was that a bottle was a vessel with a cap, and evoking Braun's “less but better” approach, while interesting (iconic, even) in itself, is unnecessary. To me, it merely sounds like pointless name-dropping.