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In the field of interaction design, a paper cut bug is “a trivially fixable usability bug”. The term comes from the Ubuntu team, which decided in 2009 to prioritize fixing lots of these niggling issues. GitHub followed suit in 2018.
Software Paper Cuts · Matthew Bischoff
Matthew Bischoff
Maybe the first thing to say about the crypto financial system is that the traditional financial system is deeply intermediated, and the crypto system is not.
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
bloomberg.com
The UNIX way is undeniably more flexible since it isn't a virtual filesystem, it is just a filesystem. The problem is that everyone invented their own configuration format to store configuration data in /etc and there's no format agnostic API to access that information (you can open it, but can you understand it?).
Why the Windows Registry Sucks Technically (2010) | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
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