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Lessons learned: 1. Incremental, backward compatible progress wins in the market. 2. Incremental, backward compatible progress leads to nasty, ugly, hard to u
by Hizonner 3y ago
Lessons learned:
1. Incremental, backward compatible progress wins in the market.
2. Incremental, backward compatible progress leads to nasty, ugly, hard to use hacks that create waste, inefficiency, and user pain.
Explains a lot, really.
- kens 3y agoAs Intel engineer Tom Forsyth said, "The REAL cost of x86 legacy is not gates, it’s lots and lots of meetings."
- nine_k 3y agoWelcome to biological evolution, by the way.
- modeless 3y agoYou have to measure "waste, inefficiency, and user pain" not in a vacuum but by comparison to the alternative. Breaking backwards compatibility also causes waste, inefficiency, and user pain.