Quotes of the week(s)
the unix philosophy: do 90% of one thing, and barely do it adequately
— Adam Jackson
The original plan when I cooked up Just Solve The Problem Month was that there was a set of problems out there that just needed a few hundred people to contribute time and effort, and some otherwise seemingly insurmountable problems could be solved or really, really beaten down into a usable form.
— Jason Scott,
who was, for the record, ultimately pleased with the resulting File Formats Wiki.
Aaaaand what instead happened was:
- We announced and set up a Just Solve The Problem Wiki for the first problem.
- A lot of people worked on the Wiki.
- I got very busy.
- People kept working on the Wiki.
- It’s been two years.
Special Black Friday deal for software developers: switch to open source tools for 100% off.
— Jeff
Atwood