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A flurry of hacks tends to beat the "correctly designed" way: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
by aoakenfo 12y ago
A flurry of hacks tends to beat the "correctly designed" way:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
- fsloth 12y agoI don't think this describes a "flurry of hacks". To me, the confrontation posed there is not between speed and quality, but which constraints affect the system design most: coherence, or overall simplicity. I would claim the "worse is better" school of design aims to lower overall complexity by cutting the corners where the added complexity to maintain design coherence does not seemingly add any value to the implementation nor the end users.
- the_why_of_y 12y ago"A flurry of hacks" indicates you did not understand worse-is-better: http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/worse-is-worse.pdf "This advice is corrosive. It warps the minds of youth. It is never a good idea to intentionally aim for anything less than the best, though one might have to compromise in order to succeed"