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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by billswift on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @03:47AM (#3069842)
>The problem is that something barely usable is better than something nonexistent

No necessarily. I think sometimes the existence of something, even if only barely usable, blocks the creation of something else that might be better.

Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by alnayyir on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @06:12AM (#3070191)
OTOH, perfect can at times be the enemy of good.

You have to weigh the value of immediacy against permanently enshrined qualities and perform your own cost-benefit analysis.

This is called critical thinking, they introduce this around age 12 in most western societies. You don't have to pick a religion and stick with it, you can just make a judgment call on a case-by-case basis.

Works great for me, fyi.