Comments on: On the care and feeding of Hydras http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/03/05/on-the-care-and-feeding-of-hydras/ Fun and games with the politics of open source Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:03:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Boris http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/03/05/on-the-care-and-feeding-of-hydras/comment-page-1/#comment-921 Boris Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:26:05 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=109#comment-921 In particular, just supporting all of gmail, amazon, and multi-megabyte mailing list archive pages, not to mention all the other crap out there on the web, really falls under "perform many tasks, in many unexpected ways, in many places, and must do so reliably" When you add in web apps, things get particularly bad. In particular, just supporting all of gmail, amazon, and multi-megabyte mailing list archive pages, not to mention all the other crap out there on the web, really falls under “perform many tasks, in many unexpected ways, in many places, and must do so reliably”

When you add in web apps, things get particularly bad.

]]> By: Boris http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/03/05/on-the-care-and-feeding-of-hydras/comment-page-1/#comment-920 Boris Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:24:10 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=109#comment-920 I think Gecko enters the “system software product” category by simple virtue of being a web browser. Your description of such a product exactly sums up the issues with developing a "good" rendering engine... I think Gecko enters the “system software product” category by simple virtue of being a web browser. Your description of such a product exactly sums up the issues with developing a “good” rendering engine…

]]> By: cris http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/03/05/on-the-care-and-feeding-of-hydras/comment-page-1/#comment-919 cris Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:55:32 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=109#comment-919 absolutely. Ecosystem is, eventually, where the potential is. Compromise is hard, Im glad you guys are doing it. absolutely. Ecosystem is, eventually, where the potential is. Compromise is hard, Im glad you guys are doing it.

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