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Great idea, but for political purposes, you might not want to call the first position 'vanity'. Perhaps 'symbolic' or 'headline'. (Or even, 'political'.)
by gojomo 8y ago
Great idea, but for political purposes, you might not want to call the first position 'vanity'. Perhaps 'symbolic' or 'headline'. (Or even, 'political'.)
- anth_anm 8y agoNo, call it vanity. People deserve to be reminded that the entire thing is silly ego. Every single time.
- kumarharsh 8y agoBut then they'll take it on their ego, thus defeating the purpose
- gojomo 8y agoLecturing people that their preferred "leading version number" practices are "silly ego" won't help this better system attract support. But also, it's false. It's a legitimate convention, across a bunch of domains that are either analogous or intersecting with software-development, to use increments of the 1st number to signal "big user-meaningful changes" (as opposed to exactly-and-only "interface breaking changes"). It's not just ego, but evolved communication.