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Agree - this type of parable may be suitable for small children, but if you think about it, it has zero information content, and no applicability to the real wo
by sxcurry 14y ago
Agree - this type of parable may be suitable for small children, but if you think about it, it has zero information content, and no applicability to the real world.
I'd much rather read a real story about a real bridge or two - that's what I come to HN for.
- raldi 14y agoReal world version: Google Wave is bridge #1. Edit: The CueCat is an even better example! Meanwhile, the transition of Amazon from bookseller to everything-seller to hardware maker to cloud company is a good example of a real-world Bridge #2 story. Or the transition of Justin.tv into Twitch.
- yen223 14y agoThe first iPhone is also bridge #1. An overly-designed gizmo that no one needed at the time. Hence its massive failure.
- raldi 14y agoYou're attacking a strawman. Nobody claimed Bridge 1 is always the wrong choice.
- yen223 14y agoSorry for the snark. I'm merely pointing out that the real world is a lot more nuanced than "Big design bad! Agile good!"
- altrego99 14y agoThe first iPhone was a bridge with a circus. Hence everybody went to see it, even though the toll was hefty. Some loved it so much, they even left their own village for good. In time a settlement grew around the circus. Now most people live around it. To see tigers and the zebras every morning became their way of life. No one lives in the old villages anymore, and who would - it doesn't even have a giraffe! Then came another bridge - little down the stream. This also had a circus, but with robots in it instead of animals. It became suddenly very popular for two things - 1) people are already used to living around a circus, and 2) the toll was way cheaper. Also robots were a novelty - who wants to see a giraffe when there are robots?
- qu4z-2 14y agoI don't know what to say to you except "I'm glad this kind of story is on HN."