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It's another example of Worse is Better

• nightski 12y ago
  Under the assumption that Minecraft could not have been delivered as quickly or seen a similar level of success if properly engineered. For Notch, this may be true. But that doesn't mean it is a golden rule for all developers. In fact, I don't think it is very closely related at all. More of a coincidence.
• tedunangst 12y ago
  I think that's a rather severe misinterpretation of Worse is Better. Worse is Better doesn't mean ship with silly bugs and never fix them; it means ship simple, understandable systems. The canonical example is that unix system calls sometimes need to be restarted instead of always succeeding. But that doesn't mean unix succeeded because its system calls would randomly return incorrect data.
• joezydeco 12y ago
  I always thought it was a better example of deciding if you should optimize code or just throw faster hardware at a system.