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I suppose there are correlations between his life and founders. He failed as a political cartoonist right out of college, and failed for a couple of years draw
by iamwil 20y ago
I suppose there are correlations between his life and founders. He failed as a political cartoonist right out of college, and failed for a couple of years drawing C&H...not a lot of newspapers wanted to take his work.
The most amazing thing to me, though is that he chose a stopping point. He stopped C&H at what one might call the pinnacle of his popularity because he felt he had completely explored what he wanted to explore with the medium, unlike those long running one-liner and uninspired strips like Garfield.
Software might be amendable to the same time of attitude--they only should go up to a certain point, instead of add feature after feature, ad nauseum, creating an uninspired pile of features.
It might be like how the Ilwrath just got a little bit too good and wrapped around to evil.
- notabel 20y agoEven if there isn't a cut-off for adding features to software, there's probably a cut-off for where adding features is the best occupation for the founder. Either the software fails, and its moot, or it takes off, and if it takes off, there is probably a point at which it makes more sense for the founder to leave and work on a new project--one where the hard problems still have to be solved.