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This idea comes up in painting. The rule of thumb is that it's done when there's nothing left to add; when adding the next thing does not provide much more valu
by cjohnson318 4y ago
This idea comes up in painting. The rule of thumb is that it's done when there's nothing left to add; when adding the next thing does not provide much more value value than it costs in terms complexity.
With coding, it seems like it's much more difficult question to answer.
- ohlookabird 4y agoWith coding, I often find Antoine de Saint-Exupéry helping me to limit myself: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- soperj 4y agoI feel like this quote is why I can't have a removable battery, a headphone jack and an sd card in a new phone.
- mmcdermott 4y agoPerhaps. I always assumed it had more to do with offering better waterproofing, but maybe that's naive.
- jamiek88 4y agoI swam for three hours today with my stock iPhone taking incredible 4K video of our diving and surfing adventure. that advanced waterproofing is awesome.
- soperj 4y agoWouldn't sea water be corrosive?
- eftychis 4y agoOr maybe more to do with users buying more of a particular brand of Bluetooth headphones and not having an arbitrary and universal input (you can do a lot of crazy stuff with an audio jack see square).
- drewzero1 4y agoI suppose that might be one reading, though IMO the battery, jack, and card slot have just been replaced by more bells and whistles like more/fancier cameras, biometric sensors, NFC, and other gobbledygook that was more important to someone than being able to plug into the cassette adapter in my car. Not exactly what I think of when I hear "nothing left to take away."
- danhak 4y agoUnlike a painting, software can be continually improved and enhanced after it's released.