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Innovation and stability are tautologically in opposition to each other, alas.

• rtpg 9y ago
  I've found that this doesn't have to be the case. Continuous deployment is a good example where this doesn't hold. You roll out things more quickly... and you experience less issues! When issues happen, the cause is easier to isolate. After all, you only had one day's worth of changes (and not one year's worth). The previous state is more knowable. Testing is more concentrated. Apple's new OS releases are the opposite of this. They release 30 different major changes at once, they all collide, and we end up just assuming that .0 releases will be broken. In an alternate universe, Apple just releases updates to parts of software when it's ready. They don't pin Safari to the OS (because there's not much of a technical reason to). They could pinpoint _when_ "Month 13" started showing up everywhere beyond "when everyone downloaded that 7 gig update". It takes some effort and tooling, but if you're expecting to make changes, a lot of times making the changes piecemeal will mean that post-release stability will increase in many cases.
• ncallaway 9y ago
  There are innovations that happen all the time specifically around making things smoother and more stable. Look at air transportation. It was a series of fairly novel and innovative programs that took place to make a new transportation industry the safest by a mile. It was some serious hard work and innovation to make air transportation the safest and most stable way to travel.
• LeoNatan25 9y ago
  No, they are perpendicular. An optimal path can be found so that both advance in the desired direction.
• asdjasldkjkljd 9y ago
  Right, if you innovate too quickly you end up with major security issues like root login with a blank password.