Re:Software Complexity Is Killing Us
by dustingetz on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:19PM
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the web didn't. But your point about arrows is well taken. Today, the gravity arrow points toward the money. But I don't think that's some immutable law of nature, i think it's a local maxima (a very deep maxima)
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> the web didn't
Oh, the web is likely the single biggest fuckup (maybe second only to C) of the software world. We've gained a lot, true, but we've also broke things a lot too.
Goes to show that "worse is better", given that these two perhaps badly-designed systems are the software world's biggest successes.
Yeah. "Worse is better" is just philosophy built around understanding of feedback loops (indirectly, through evolutionary processes). It's pretty much fact of the system that is human society. It's true, and it's the default way things work. It should be used, however, as a reminder that we have brains capable of overriding that default, if we can be bothered to use them.