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Depends on your objectives. If you want people to actually use your stuff, they need to be able to... you know... use it... Ideas don't take over the world, i

Depends on your objectives. If you want people to actually use your stuff, they need to be able to... you know... use it... Ideas don't take over the world, implementations of them do. Playing around with concepts is all well and good, but don't gripe when you can't demonstrate its usefulness and no one cares.

sitkack 9y ago
Look at the impact that Bret Victor has had by not releasing working demos. He communicates in ideas, others are free to implement them. If Bret subscribed to CoGTFO, he would be sucked into a quagmire of maintaining an instance of an idea. By not creating a functional artifact, he forces the universe to make multiple competing copies. Some ideas need to shown, some can be told. Some people are really lousy at telling stories. Vastly more people can code than think creatively.