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Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment

• memexy 6y ago
  Link with highlight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Principles:~:text=Every%20program%20attempts,which%20can https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Principles:~:te.... It highlights the text > Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
  • tomato2juice 6y ago
    Wow, I did not know you could use the URL to highlight on wikipedia. Is there a way in the UI to generate that URL without having to do it manually?
    • memexy 6y ago
      No idea. I just learned about it myself from dqpb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23420714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23420714.
• downerending 6y ago
  Catchy, but I can't actually think of many (or any) programs that have so expanded. GNU Emacs can, but I don't think you could really argue that it replaced some other program that couldn't.