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Re:The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe by jacquesm on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:33AM (#29494496)
> Nobody's going to pivot the Falcon 9 into being a washing machine next week.

I may have to borrow that.

An alternative explanation: we're so in a hurry that we don't want to take time out to decide what it is that we are going to build, and so we embrace the fact that we don't know what we are doing and put a sexy label on it, because hey, who doesn't want to be Agile? It sounds so much better than 'clueless'.

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Re:The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe by dale_glass on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:41AM (#29495496)
Most of the time, we don't care that much about what we're going to build. The actual goal is "build whatever makes money". In FOSS circles without money it's often "whatever gets users" instead.

If I'm doing a custom project that does some sort of warehouse management for a client, I'm not really deeply invested in my particular vision about how a warehouse should be managed. I'm deeply invested in making my client happy.

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