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Its also the motto of many good companys. At least in my mind, move fast and break things, means that you iterate quickly and move into testing fast, to find th
by nickik 12y ago
Its also the motto of many good companys. At least in my mind, move fast and break things, means that you iterate quickly and move into testing fast, to find the errors there.
This works of course better with exerimental APIs compared to things you have to put on CD and ship.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoThis is the problem with such mottos. "Move fast and break things" means exactly that, i.e. move fast and break things. It's just a catchy soundbite, nothing else. It's up to every one of us to fill in the missing meaning; therefore everyone arrives at interpretations he/she likes, which might not be the same interpretation as anyone elses.
- pm 12y agoPerhaps, but when it's applied companywide, it's a bad idea.
- seanp2k2 12y agoAnd in the "ships CDs" camp, we have Adobe and Microsoft, long held as bastions of robust, stable, well-tested software.
- godzilla82 12y agoThere are other camps too. Like software consulting firms building software for large enterprises like banks, insurance companies etc. The consequences of breaking things are all written down in very exact legal terms. It is not at all fun when a regression bug shows up.