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We have long term pain and the Internet. It wasn’t inevitable. Making stuff just about work as quickly as possible was key to bootstrapping a global open networ
by robotresearcher 3y ago
We have long term pain and the Internet. It wasn’t inevitable. Making stuff just about work as quickly as possible was key to bootstrapping a global open network.
I don’t have evidence for this, or much of an argument. Just a hunch.
- kstrauser 3y agoFair point. And plenty of people have heard of Postel's Law, because he's smart as hell and has earned us paying attention to his words. You haven't heard about my Laws, perhaps the most popular being "duct tape can fix anything, ergo nanomachines smaller than a duct tape molecule can't work", because I'm just some rando on the Internet. I think it was a perfectly reasonable rule of thumb for the time he said it. I'm 100% onboard a modern variant like "be liberal in what you accept by returning an appropriate error code instead of crashing", e.g. an HTTP 400 for invalid data instead of a 500.