Re:Building Software to Last Forever
by whoooooo123 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @04:45AM
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> Sorry for being a pedant
HN is the last place on earth where anyone should apologise for being a pedant.
Re:Building Software to Last Forever
by robertlagrant on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @07:29AM
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Technically HN isn't a place on earth.
Re:Building Software to Last Forever
by another2another on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @07:57AM
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Stop it, you guys are literally killing me.
Re:Building Software to Last Forever
by robertlagrant on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:54AM
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> literally
Don't.
Except that it’s on earth.
Re:Building Software to Last Forever
by whoooooo123 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:24AM
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Technically HN's servers are located on Earth, so the technical part of HN is technically on Earth.
I have similar pedantic objections to that, since "a lifetime" isn't even well-defined. "Forever" might be an unachievable goal, but it's a goal which implies specific priorities.
Going deeper. "Built to last" is shorter and seemingly checks all the marks.
Lifetime has been significantly cheapened and hollowed out as a meaning full word when it comes to products, thanks to the ever present unspoken "lifetime of the product". In the context of products if I think of "lifetime" as about 2 years, maybe a little less or more depending upon the company, but far less than a decade in all cases.
Sorry for being a pedant, but it's hard to overstate how insignificant this timeframe is compared to "forever". Even if we talk about forever in practical terms of when the earth will be consumed by the sun or something like that. Why not just be honest and say "Built to last a lifetime"?