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> And somewhere else about accidentally building a real time chat service (or was it email? Don’t recall). Maybe Zawinski's Law?[0] > Every program attempts t
by david_allison 3y ago
> And somewhere else about accidentally building a real time chat service (or was it email? Don’t recall).
Maybe Zawinski's Law?[0]
> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law
- NegativeK 3y agoAnd then there's Mallett's Law (not in Wikipedia), which is a bit more modern: Every program attempts to expand until it can render HTML. This usually results in it being able to read email.