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Are More Choices Really Better?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-to-hit-the-off-switch-let-me-count-the-ways dept.

A. Bosch writes to mention that Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek software has a commentary that examines the need for choices in software. From the article: "This highlights a style of software design shared by Microsoft and the open source movement, in both cases driven by a desire for consensus and for 'Making Everybody Happy,' but it's based on the misconceived notion that lots of choices make people happy, which we really need to rethink." With software steadily becoming more sophisticated, are more choices really necessarily better?

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  1. Absolutely. by dbc001 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Each different software is like a branch of the evolutionary tree. The more branches, the more options. The good software flourishes and encourages imitators, the bad software dies off.

  2. God loves you! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    STEPS IN OVERCOMING MASTURBATION

    Mark E. Petersen
    Council of the 12 Apostles

    Be assured that you can be cured of your difficulty. Many have been,
    both male and female, and you can be also if you determine that it must be so.

    This determination is the first step. That is where we begin. You
    must decide that you will end this practice, and when you make that decision,
    the problem will be greatly reduced at once.

    But it must be more than a hope or a whish, more than knowing that it
    is good for you. It must be actually a DECISION. If you truly make up your
    mind that you will be cured, then you will have the strength to resist any
    tendencies which you may have and any temptations which may come to you.

    After you have made this decision, then observe the following specific
    guidelines:

    A Guide to Self-Control:

    1. Never touch the intimate parts of your body except during
    normal toilet processes.

    2. Avoid being alone as much as possible. Find good company
    and stay in this good company.

    3. If you are associated with other persons having this same
    problem, YOU MUST BREAK OFF THEIR FRIENDSHIP. Never
    associate with other people having the same weakness. Don't
    suppose that two of you will quit together, you never will.
    You must get away from people of that kind. Just to be in
    their presence will keep your problem foremost in your mind.
    The problem must be taken OUT OF YOUR MIND for that is where
    it really exists. Your mind must be on other and more
    wholesome things.

    4. When you bathe, do not admire yourself in a mirror. Never
    stay in the bath more than five or six minutes -- just long
    enough to bathe and dry and dress AND THEN GET OUT OF THE
    BATHROOM into a room where you will have some member of your
    family present.

    5. When

  3. I thank you for 7o0r time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    with proces5 and may also 3ant