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Disprovement |
Easter Monday, 24 April 2000 |
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Last week I started a project at a new customer
(http://www.devote.nl/en/index.htm).
I was just happily designing a form when I got an unpleasant surprise.
![]() These gimmicks don't help me, the slow me down. A save button must save, nothing else. Working efficiently is mainly a matter of no distractions, maintain flow (www.asktog.com/...023MaxHumanPerf.html). Yes, I know that each software release should have added value. But that should not lead to creeping featurism (info.astrian.net/jargon...creeping_featurism). Changes are fine, but they must be improvements.
In addition, the bugs in the old release are well known. As a user I know where they are. By experience I've developed ways to avoid them. Those bugs will probably be solved in the new release, but well, I wasn't not really waiting for those fixes any more. What I will see are yet unknown bugs. What a disaster. So, my conclusion is: Stop shipping new software releases. My dear ladies and gentlemen software developers: Declare a product to be finished. No more new features, and just ignore the old bugs. | ||
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