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#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri  View all mentions for uri.
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I Regret my $46k Website Redesign ยท mtlynch.io

This was posted on Hacker News a week or so ago, but I've _actually_ read the entire article. Worth re-sharing ๐Ÿ˜… Amazing to me how a simple project can spiral out of control ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
I Regret my $46k Website Redesign ยท mtlynch.io

This was posted on Hacker News a week or so ago, but I've _actually_ read the entire article. Worth re-sharing ๐Ÿ˜… Amazing to me how a simple project can spiral out of control ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
@prologic Sadly, the old site looked better than the new one. :-/ Good report, though! Reminds me of several similarities at work.
@lyse Sometimes simpler is better right? ๐Ÿค”
@lyse Sometimes simpler is better right? ๐Ÿค”
@prologic Simpler is better even most of the time, I'd say. :-)
@prologic
_At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way -and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay. โ€” C.A.R. Hoare_
@prologic OMG so much money wasted on things that he did not actually want. This is a good one to read and learn from. Need to show this to my wife, so she also learns to stick to the agreement in the future when she might get hired as a designer.
@carsten Yeap talk about scope creep and "bullshit pricing" model (which I really can't believe!) ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
@carsten Yeap talk about scope creep and "bullshit pricing" model (which I really can't believe!) ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ