Comments on: Features, Simplicity, and the Purpose of Software http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/features-simplicity-and-the-purpose-of-software/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:30:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Max Kanat-Alexander http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/features-simplicity-and-the-purpose-of-software/comment-page-1/#comment-1313 Max Kanat-Alexander Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:01:02 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/?p=98#comment-1313 Thanks! :-) Thanks! :-)

]]> By: Ben http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/features-simplicity-and-the-purpose-of-software/comment-page-1/#comment-1242 Ben Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:05:14 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/?p=98#comment-1242 Very astute observation. I hadn't thought about simplicity of features coinciding with the success of a program before. That's very true. Very astute observation. I hadn’t thought about simplicity of features coinciding with the success of a program before. That’s very true.

]]> By: Max Kanat-Alexander http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/features-simplicity-and-the-purpose-of-software/comment-page-1/#comment-903 Max Kanat-Alexander Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:11:53 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/?p=98#comment-903 Yeah, what Havvy said below--I was talking about simplicity and the quality of individual features. Twitter's downtime problems are a scaling issue--the result of some backend decisions that was made incorrectly at the beginning of the project. -Max Yeah, what Havvy said below–I was talking about simplicity and the quality of individual features.

Twitter’s downtime problems are a scaling issue–the result of some backend decisions that was made incorrectly at the beginning of the project.

-Max

]]> By: Havvy http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/features-simplicity-and-the-purpose-of-software/comment-page-1/#comment-901 Havvy Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:37:53 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/?p=98#comment-901 @Craig: So it goes down unpredictably. Uptime wasn't key to the essay. Simplicity was. Though, I guess, adding Uptime as a feature would help it. :P @Craig: So it goes down unpredictably. Uptime wasn’t key to the essay. Simplicity was. Though, I guess, adding Uptime as a feature would help it. :P

]]> By: Craig http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/features-simplicity-and-the-purpose-of-software/comment-page-1/#comment-899 Craig Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:59:44 +0000 http://www.codesimplicity.com/?p=98#comment-899 Did you seriously just use Twitter as an example for quality? It's most famous for the "Fail Whale" and insane amount of unpredictable downtime... I hope Mozilla isn't aiming to use Twitter as an example for anything how *not* to manage a project. :-) Did you seriously just use Twitter as an example for quality? It’s most famous for the “Fail Whale” and insane amount of unpredictable downtime… I hope Mozilla isn’t aiming to use Twitter as an example for anything how *not* to manage a project. :-)

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