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Most of the time people that need the feature are not the same as people that will be in charge of developing the feature. I doubt most people also have the lev

by Zababa 5y ago

Most of the time people that need the feature are not the same as people that will be in charge of developing the feature. I doubt most people also have the leverage to conving the business that they don't need the feature.

Wowfunhappy 5y ago
But what did they do about it a year ago? They didn’t have the option of using an unstable version (because the feature still wouldn’t have been there), so what happened? Did they go out of business? IMO, the “bleeding edge” is just overly tempting and people need to learn to resist it. It’s hard to know for sure when we’re speaking in hypotheticals, but I think that in most cases, the trade-offs aren’t being weighed accurately.
- powersnail 5y ago
  They endured it. People didn't have personal computers or cell phones a century ago. What happened? Did businesses go extinct? The entire digital empire that we enjoy today is built on people's wants. Some things are wanted so badly, that we are willing to get our hands dirty and actually create new things. It's not hard to imagine that people can want things badly enough to try out those new things.
- jodrellblank 5y ago
  Seems like you're arguing that if they didn't go out of business last year from lack of $feature, then they never will. Imagine you run a company selling things and can't offer next-day shipping and none of your competitors does either. The company you use for deliveries announces they support next day shipping now but you have to add a priority flag to requests so they can schedule it differently, and they released a new API client to support that. Your competitors all start offering next-day shipping and you don't. You ask your employees why. The development team says the new API client is unproven and the one you have is stable and you didn't go out of business last year so you probably just have no self control and are demanding the latest shiny and are weak and impulsive. Would you be OK with that reasoning? Or with literally any reason that ended "so we're not offering next day shipping and will definitely lose customers to our competitors because of it."? Or would you start looking for a way you can take the change and isolate it? "We'll run next-day shipping requests through a different queue and watch it more closely", etc.

by Zababa 5y ago

Wowfunhappy 5y ago

But what did they do about it a year ago? They didn’t have the option of using an unstable version (because the feature still wouldn’t have been there), so what happened? Did they go out of business? IMO, the “bleeding edge” is just overly tempting and people need to learn to resist it. It’s hard to know for sure when we’re speaking in hypotheticals, but I think that in most cases, the trade-offs aren’t being weighed accurately.

powersnail 5y ago
They endured it. People didn't have personal computers or cell phones a century ago. What happened? Did businesses go extinct? The entire digital empire that we enjoy today is built on people's wants. Some things are wanted so badly, that we are willing to get our hands dirty and actually create new things. It's not hard to imagine that people can want things badly enough to try out those new things.
jodrellblank 5y ago
Seems like you're arguing that if they didn't go out of business last year from lack of $feature, then they never will. Imagine you run a company selling things and can't offer next-day shipping and none of your competitors does either. The company you use for deliveries announces they support next day shipping now but you have to add a priority flag to requests so they can schedule it differently, and they released a new API client to support that. Your competitors all start offering next-day shipping and you don't. You ask your employees why. The development team says the new API client is unproven and the one you have is stable and you didn't go out of business last year so you probably just have no self control and are demanding the latest shiny and are weak and impulsive. Would you be OK with that reasoning? Or with literally any reason that ended "so we're not offering next day shipping and will definitely lose customers to our competitors because of it."? Or would you start looking for a way you can take the change and isolate it? "We'll run next-day shipping requests through a different queue and watch it more closely", etc.