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Axl vs. Frank: More time doesn't mean a better product
- jgrahamc 18y agoI read this hoping for some deep insight into the development of web-based applications and I learnt nothing. Comparing Axl Rose and Frank Sinatra's recording styles seems to offer no useful parallels with web-based development. For example, how exactly would you do what Sinatra did in software development? You'd have to write perfect, bug free, code that didn't need any new features the first time you sat down. And Axl Rose's work on Chinese Democracy is the antithesis of release early and often. So, neither of them provide a useful comparison point.
- jdminhbg 18y agoI think they have cause and effect backwards. Is Chinese Democracy bad because it took 10 years to make, or did it take 10 years to make because it's bad? It would probably take me 10 years to record an album, but it wouldn't be worse than my first take.
- joe_the_user 18y ago"Sometimes what you make will be just fine if it’s released after three months - but add another six months (or longer) and it turns into a jumbled, complex mess." Suddenly I'm reminded of the Peter Principle: people rise to their level of incompetence. A similar software principle would be: developers develop till they reach a complexity level their are incompetent to manage. That would explain a lot.