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From the comments: > There's a lot of people (my wife included) with memory impairment. When your typical "time to learn some new fancy UI" exceeds "lifetime o

From the comments: > There's a lot of people (my wife included) with memory impairment. When your typical "time to learn some new fancy UI" exceeds "lifetime of fancy UI before CADT replaces it with something new", it makes life hell for you, and for those around you! > Can we please refrain from using CADT? It's a slur. Like all the other personal attacks it has no place in this discussion. You can make your point just as well if not better without it. Thanks. What is "CADT"? Could not find anything useful that fits.

voxadam 2y ago
That one had me vexed for a bit too. After a bit of stumbling around the web I think I finally found a definition by HN's favorite browser engineer, Bay Area club owner, and malcontent Jamie Zawinski.[0][1] According to Jamie CADT stands for "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers".[2] WARNING: JWZ's site used to redirect to an unpleasant NSFW meme[3] from the late 90s when linked to from HN. Though, if I remember correctly that's been solved in recent years by HN. In case it hasn't please be sure to copy plaintext links to his site into a fresh tab to avoid the referrer. [0] https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.jwz.org/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski [2] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
- aragilar 2y ago
  The modern equivalent would be resume-driven development. I've always found it somewhat ironic that CADT was originally used to describe the GNOME 1.x to 2.x switch, when GNOME 2.x was for a long time quite stable (and which was stable over the KDE 3 -> 4 changeover period), and newer versions of GNOME have tended to have less backwards compatibility and more churn.
  - p_l 2y ago
    GNOME 2.x was also when the roots for events of GNOME 3.x got put in place. The clean rewrite allowed both good and bad things.

voxadam 2y ago

That one had me vexed for a bit too. After a bit of stumbling around the web I think I finally found a definition by HN's favorite browser engineer, Bay Area club owner, and malcontent Jamie Zawinski.[0][1] According to Jamie CADT stands for "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers".[2] WARNING: JWZ's site used to redirect to an unpleasant NSFW meme[3] from the late 90s when linked to from HN. Though, if I remember correctly that's been solved in recent years by HN. In case it hasn't please be sure to copy plaintext links to his site into a fresh tab to avoid the referrer. [0] https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.jwz.org/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski [2] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx

aragilar 2y ago
The modern equivalent would be resume-driven development. I've always found it somewhat ironic that CADT was originally used to describe the GNOME 1.x to 2.x switch, when GNOME 2.x was for a long time quite stable (and which was stable over the KDE 3 -> 4 changeover period), and newer versions of GNOME have tended to have less backwards compatibility and more churn.
- p_l 2y ago
  GNOME 2.x was also when the roots for events of GNOME 3.x got put in place. The clean rewrite allowed both good and bad things.