Comments on: Remember, an aging code base is a feature http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/19/remember-an-aging-code-base-is-a-feature/ Full of sound and furry Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:20:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen Mackenzie http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/19/remember-an-aging-code-base-is-a-feature/#comment-474 Stephen Mackenzie Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:20:30 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=76#comment-474 "wholly", dude. "wholly." “wholly”, dude. “wholly.”

]]> By: Jeff http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/19/remember-an-aging-code-base-is-a-feature/#comment-473 Jeff Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:50:36 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=76#comment-473 The phrases that are actually true but, left unexplained, does not point towards the truth is the use of "relatively more" and relatively less". To make up some numbers: 98% sucky is relatively less sucky than 99%, but it is still really bad suckiness. It's like the old dandruff shampoo commercial: "while both have effective dandruff fighting ingredients, this one has an extra ingredient that makes your scalp tingle. So you know it's working." Are we buying dandruff shampoo to fight dandruff or to tell us it's working? I think that is the same, anyhow. The phrases that are actually true but, left unexplained, does not point towards the truth is the use of “relatively more” and relatively less”. To make up some numbers: 98% sucky is relatively less sucky than 99%, but it is still really bad suckiness.

It’s like the old dandruff shampoo commercial: “while both have effective dandruff fighting ingredients, this one has an extra ingredient that makes your scalp tingle. So you know it’s working.” Are we buying dandruff shampoo to fight dandruff or to tell us it’s working?

I think that is the same, anyhow.

]]> By: Jim Gleeson http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/19/remember-an-aging-code-base-is-a-feature/#comment-472 Jim Gleeson Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:15:41 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=76#comment-472 A recent airing of the show security now, Steve Gibson actually stated that Vista will be more vulnerable since they have completely written the security aspect to it. It is kind of like thinking that building a completely new dam will be more secure than the patches made to the old one. A recent airing of the show security now, Steve Gibson actually stated that Vista will be more vulnerable since they have completely written the security aspect to it. It is kind of like thinking that building a completely new dam will be more secure than the patches made to the old one.

]]> By: John Muir http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/19/remember-an-aging-code-base-is-a-feature/#comment-471 John Muir Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:43:28 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=76#comment-471 Meanwhile, back on the blue globe itself, our own tentacled creatures try making a living by saying that Windows is secure and the Mac is hideously unreliable, because they know that to say any otherwise is to mutter whispers into a torrent which is, in our 10 fingered land, the awful storm of fact. Meanwhile, back on the blue globe itself, our own tentacled creatures try making a living by saying that Windows is secure and the Mac is hideously unreliable, because they know that to say any otherwise is to mutter whispers into a torrent which is, in our 10 fingered land, the awful storm of fact.

]]> By: Robert C. http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/19/remember-an-aging-code-base-is-a-feature/#comment-470 Robert C. Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:13:26 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=76#comment-470 You know as well as I do that the inhabitants of Glaxxor 6 only have 88 tentacles, not 100. And they have little interest in your earthly operating systems. You know as well as I do that the inhabitants of Glaxxor 6 only have 88 tentacles, not 100. And they have little interest in your earthly operating systems.

]]> By: pedro http://www.macalope.com/2006/10/19/remember-an-aging-code-base-is-a-feature/#comment-469 pedro Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:35:43 +0000 http://www.macalope.com/?p=76#comment-469 gotta love biased authority gotta love biased authority

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