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> I think software should be opinionated. Throwing everything in a huge settings panel or configuration file and calling it “choice” or “not imposing your prefe
by elihu 6y ago
> I think software should be opinionated. Throwing everything in a huge settings panel or configuration file and calling it “choice” or “not imposing your preferences” is a product development failure.
I think the ideal is that the software is as configurable as it needs to be in order to be useful to the people that use it, but that there's a standard configuration with sensible defaults.
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoI think that ideal is extremely difficult to reach without it turning into the situation you quoted.