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I feel like blaming developers (or management) for this is just fighting human nature which never ends well. Rather we should look at deeper root causes, like w
by sseagull 5y ago
I feel like blaming developers (or management) for this is just fighting human nature which never ends well. Rather we should look at deeper root causes, like why these initial assumptions keep changing, and why there is so much churn in some ecosystems.
If the incentives aren’t there to do proper maintenance, no amount of blaming people for following those incentives will fix the problem.
- WJW 5y agoI don't mean to blame anyone here, it is like you say: just human nature. The same is true about initial assumptions and software ecosystems btw, change has been their nature since basically forever and calling that a "root cause" seems like being angry at a thistle for having thorns. The world/human society has never been static, why should software be an exception to this? In any case it does not really matter; either Utoronto will eventually rewrite their firewall configs, or they won't and then they will not be able to use HTTP3. These issues have a way of eventually becoming urgent enough to fix and at that time the incentives will sort themselves out.