There's both a pattern and an anti-pattern here, and I saw both during
my OLPC v1 days, circa 2008. There were certain features that we
were assured had a brilliant and complicated design that was just
waiting to be implemented and the implementer never got around to
either documenting the
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:10 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
There's both a pattern and an anti-pattern here, and I saw both during
my OLPC v1 days, circa 2008. There were certain features that we
were assured had a brilliant and complicated design that was just
waiting to be
Brilliant anti-pattern :)
Cookie licker - Picture a child who has had enough cookies, but wants to save
the last one for later. So they take it off the plate and lick it, to ensure
no-one else will eat it. The same phenomenon exists for community projects -
prominent community members reserve key
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