On 8/25/2014 12:40 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
Hello everyone,
[endless discussion]
Anyone seen the mystery/comedy/detective show "Monk"?
I've been watching it lately. One interesting quirk about the main
character Adrian Monk (a character who's humorously *loaded* with
quirks) is that one must NEVER present him with a choice, especially a
trivial or inconsequential one. He will contemplate and second-guess it
endlessly. *Make* the choice instead, without providing him an
opportunity to debate it with himself, and things work out fine (at
least until another quirk is triggered).
If Dub had gone the "badly-managed-project" route and unilaterally made
the call to rip out JSON entirely, replacing it with SDL, back when it
was first considered...I doubt very much it would have generated
anywhere near the level of back-and-forth objections and unrest that
it's now generated over several discussions since. We're designing by
committee.
We are Adrian Monk. We can't handle choice. ;)
