What idea(s) do you regret not implementing?

Re:What idea(s) do you regret not implementing? by mynameishere on Monday July 30, 2007 @12:33AM (#37567)

bittorrent. I had that idea before it came out. I could prove it, too, from old usenet postings, though I don't want to give away my anonymity.

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Re:What idea(s) do you regret not implementing? by Tichy on Monday July 30, 2007 @04:48AM (#37602)

Me too, and probably lots of other people. The time was probably calling for it.

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Re:What idea(s) do you regret not implementing? by steve on Monday July 30, 2007 @08:54AM (#37630)

I think it's a bad idea. I would not have released it until the torrent sharing was decentralized.

Or maybe he had no problems knowing that many of his users would have their lives ruined and many more would be scared away from using it. His reason for this shortcoming, along with lack of effective stenography in the protocol is now clear, he wanted to build a business around it.

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Re:What idea(s) do you regret not implementing? by randallsquared on Monday July 30, 2007 @02:19PM (#37718)

Bittorrent grew out of MojoNation, a "distributed, peer to peer, file store", per wikipedia. So it already had a business sponsoring it.

Distributing content tracking is much harder than distributing the content, and if they'd waiting to solve that problem before publishing code, it probably would have died. I think there's a lesson here: don't wait to solve all your problems before you launch, because even if some of them are insoluble, the parts you have solved might be useful enough to be successful. I suppose other people have more concisely summed that up as "release early; release often", eh?

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