Archive for September, 2009
Playing The Game
I’ve become fascinated recently with Game Theory. I think it’s because slowly I’ve come to realize we are all actually just playing games, or rather, life is a game. Whether it’s business, relationships, corporate jostling, politics, or economics, just about everything in life when dealing with people is a game.
One simple example is the Prisoner’s [...]
The software/website bloat cycle.
Someone or some company creates useful software.
Features get added to make useful software profitable or make more users happy.
Features don’t get removed because they make some customers happy and you don’t have time/money to test removal.
Over time the software gets so complicated, you forget all the features.
In the quest for perfection/complete testing, you find that [...]