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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, pk <peterk2@××××××××.se> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might |
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>> find interesting (if you haven't seen it already): |
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>> http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440 |
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> Yeah, I just saw that. Admittedly, when I saw this section: |
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> --begin-section-- |
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> I'll add at this point that this isn't just a programmer problem. I've |
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> seen entire companies get locked into the idea that “perfecting” the |
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> program was everything. They then neglected what the users wanted from |
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> the program, supporting the users and so on. Most of us who've been in |
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> the business for a while have seen this cycle play out over and over |
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> again. |
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> Expanding on that second point, Torvalds says that's why the Linux |
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> kernel team is “so very anal about the whole ‘no regressions’ thing, |
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> for example. Breaking the user experience in order to ‘fix’ something |
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> is a totally broken concept; you cannot do it. If you break the user |
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> experience, you may feel that you have ‘fixed’ something in the code, |
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> but if you fixed it by breaking the user, you just violated that |
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> second point; you thought the code was more important than the user. |
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> Which is not true.” |
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> --end-section-- |
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> I immediately thought of the udev thread. |
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Kernel and userspace are sometimes different. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |