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Something that just works, is bare bones, is better for wide adoption than a polished product that takes long to get to market. Aka the New Jersey Approach, lol, i'm from New Jersey.
Something that just works, is bare bones, is better for wide adoption than a polished product that takes long to get to market. Aka the New Jersey Approach, lol, i'm from New Jersey.
The property that makes for Worse-is-Better being attractive is modularity - easy improvability and adaptability. This is also known as Growable-is-Better.


https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Growable-is-better.html
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Growable-is-better.html


https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Worse-is-better.html
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Worse-is-better.html

Revision as of 22:41, 3 February 2021

Something that just works, is bare bones, is better for wide adoption than a polished product that takes long to get to market. Aka the New Jersey Approach, lol, i'm from New Jersey.

The property that makes for Worse-is-Better being attractive is modularity - easy improvability and adaptability. This is also known as Growable-is-Better.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Growable-is-better.html

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Worse-is-better.html