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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:17:05 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9sk2
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it was the 'look at google' reference i didn't get.

you're right about everything else.

On Mon Oct 24 09:53:11 EDT 2005, uriell@binarydream.org wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:13:46PM -0400, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> >>Release early, release often, and if you don't like it, look at Google.
> > 
> > wtf does that mean?
> 
> "Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early,
> ideally within weeks. Don't hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and
> rebuild them."
> 
> -- The Bell System Technical Journal. Bell Laboratories. M. D. McIlroy,
> E.  N. Pinson, and B. A. Tague. "Unix Time-Sharing System Forward" 1978.
> 57 (6, part 2). p. 1902.
> 
> The google reference can be seen in recent interviews with Rob and
> others about how their release process works.
> 
> I have heard of people complaining that working alone one doesn't get
> much feedback... but what do I know, I'm just the buffoon of the court.
> 
> uriel