a lot of people are commenting with additional reasons for surprising design choices like “malice", "incompetence", “stupidity", ”didn't care enough to do it well"
I suppose those come up sometimes but I intentionally didn't mention them because when I think about major technologies we use (SQL, git, DNS, bash, etc), the reasons I find that they're a little weird are usually pretty legitimate and not like "well the people who built them were stupid”
(2/?)
Julia Evans /
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2024-03-12 15:02:15
in reply to nevent1q…kv96
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