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He said, on a non community maintained forum. --- Do you mint your own hardware as well? The problem with hard rules is there's numerous exceptions when it do

He said, on a non community maintained forum. --- Do you mint your own hardware as well? The problem with hard rules is there's numerous exceptions when it doesnt make sense to follow, invalidating the "rule" all together.

rovr138 5y ago
They also did say ‘software’.
- Retric 5y ago
  Your monitor has software, as does basically everything built lately significantly more complicated than a fan.
  - rovr138 5y ago
    The topic is around stickiness of software. What does your monitor have that make it sticky?
    - swiley 5y ago
      Television screens do have sticky features, my rule applies there too.
    - shuntress 5y ago
      To clarify this: Closed Source Proprietary software is fine as long as it is easily interchangeable/inter-operable with similar competing software.
  - andyana 5y ago
    My fan is quite advanced. It has "night" and "natural breeze" modes, for example, and it was the cheapest one at Costco last year.
TheFreim 5y ago
It's a general rule that solves the stickiness problem, I don't think you need to go deeper than that. Is it or is it not true that going with community maintained software as much as possible prevents stickiness? We don't want to miss the forest.
jstanley 5y ago
The fact that the rule can't solve every single problem in the world doesn't invaludate the rule. Solving some problems is still better than solving no problems!
jcelerier 5y ago
> The problem with hard rules is there's numerous exceptions when it doesnt make sense to follow, invalidating the "rule" all together But rules aren't invalidated by exceptions ? The only thing that matters is, trying to follow the rule to the best of your abilities when it gives you enough benefit. In the end what matters is each independent situation - the rules are only guidelines to get started. FFS this was understood decades ago with the ISO 9001 revamp where they sanctuarized that obtaining quality products wasn't most efficiently achieved by following bullet point lists religiously, and even then it was already common sense.

rovr138 5y ago

They also did say ‘software’.

Retric 5y ago
Your monitor has software, as does basically everything built lately significantly more complicated than a fan.
- rovr138 5y ago
  The topic is around stickiness of software. What does your monitor have that make it sticky?
  - swiley 5y ago
    Television screens do have sticky features, my rule applies there too.
  - shuntress 5y ago
    To clarify this: Closed Source Proprietary software is fine as long as it is easily interchangeable/inter-operable with similar competing software.
- andyana 5y ago
  My fan is quite advanced. It has "night" and "natural breeze" modes, for example, and it was the cheapest one at Costco last year.

TheFreim 5y ago

It's a general rule that solves the stickiness problem, I don't think you need to go deeper than that. Is it or is it not true that going with community maintained software as much as possible prevents stickiness? We don't want to miss the forest.

jstanley 5y ago

The fact that the rule can't solve every single problem in the world doesn't invaludate the rule. Solving some problems is still better than solving no problems!

jcelerier 5y ago

> The problem with hard rules is there's numerous exceptions when it doesnt make sense to follow, invalidating the "rule" all together But rules aren't invalidated by exceptions ? The only thing that matters is, trying to follow the rule to the best of your abilities when it gives you enough benefit. In the end what matters is each independent situation - the rules are only guidelines to get started. FFS this was understood decades ago with the ISO 9001 revamp where they sanctuarized that obtaining quality products wasn't most efficiently achieved by following bullet point lists religiously, and even then it was already common sense.