We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.
Douglas CrockfordJust because something is a standard doesnโt mean it is the right choice for every application. Like XML, for example.
Douglas CrockfordI have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patterns. I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in JavaScript as a mistake.
Douglas CrockfordJavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.
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