Ship or Die
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Ship or Die
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#2This is negative, and I know that it's not the most socially acceptable thing to do, but: this article typifies everything that's wrong with the fluff that hits Hackers News sometimes.
✓ Random quote from historic/epic source ✓ Exhortations to throw caution to the wind and just ship ✓ Gratuitous bash of unit testing ✓ Bragging about a quick, rich, exit to a bigger company
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#3Good analogy. Reminds me of the perennial Steve Jobs quote, "real artists ship." You can think up the greatest masterpiece the world would ever see. However if you never actually paint it and display it, the world will never actually see it.
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#4I ROFL torn between hilarity and disgust at the use of that quote. He takes his little metaphor and stretches it until it breaks and then some. It takes some skill to say so little with so many words.
TLDR: Shipping Ships.
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#5Good analogy. Reminds me of the perennial Steve Jobs quote, "real artists ship." You can think up the greatest masterpiece the world would ever see. However if you never actually paint it and display it, the world will never actually see it.
That's a great quote, glad you see it that way.
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#6I nodded along to this article and even sent it to some friends. One of them pointed out that the tide comes twice a day, meaning that these hypothetical sailors would be risking capsizing to avoid a 12-hour delay. I call shenanigans.
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#7Question: Ship or Beta Test?
Have a Mac OS X productivity app nearly ready to go out the door, but my partner and I have planned to have a dozen people or so beta test the app first.
The reason behind this is that you only get one first impression. And if that's "your app crashed", or worse "your app lost my work", then I feel like that is worse than delaying a release.
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#8I nodded along to this article and even sent it to some friends. One of them pointed out that the tide comes twice a day, meaning that these hypothetical sailors would be risking capsizing to avoid a 12-hour delay. I call shenanigans.
I think it's meant the 'flood tide', not the lunar tide - the annual flood tide when the rivers and streams are engorged from snow melt over the winter.
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#9This is negative, and I know that it's not the most socially acceptable thing to do, but: this article typifies everything that's wrong with the fluff that hits Hackers News sometimes. ✓ Random quote from historic/epic source ✓ Exhortations to throw caution to the wind and just ship ✓ Gratuitous bash of unit testing ✓ Bragging about a quick, rich, exit to a bigger company
Using fancy characters to check off some made up list is just as 'fluff'.
Do you disagree with what he is saying? If so, why? Just listing shit like that is worthless. Back your thoughts up - alternate points of view that can be justified should be encouraged.
Just saying 'bah, this is fluff' isn't being justified here, it's just bashing for bashings sake, on the altar of 'whats killing HN'.
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#10Question: Ship or Beta Test? Have a Mac OS X productivity app nearly ready to go out the door, but my partner and I have planned to have a dozen people or so beta test the app first. The reason behind this is that you only get one first impression. And if that's "your app crashed", or worse "your app lost my work", then I feel like that is worse than delaying a release.
I think beta testing is shipping. Nobody expects perfection right out of the gate - even Apple and Google and Microsoft still get that wrong. I think the key is getting it out of your hands, and into others, as soon as possible. Maybe your stability won't be an issue, but something else will be? Maybe it'll work great. Who knows until you try?