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  Worse Is Better
The concept known as "worse is better" holds that in software making (and perhaps in other arenas as well) it is better to start with a minimal creation and grow it as needed.
In the Winter of 1991-1992 I wrote an essay called "Worse Is Better Is Worse" under the name "Nickieben Bourbaki." This piece attacked worse is better.
You might think that by the year 2000 I would have settled what I think of worse is better - after over a decade of thinking and speaking about it, through periods of clarity and periods of muck, and through periods of multi-mindedness on the issues.
dreamsongs.com /WorseIsBetter.html   (1411 words)

  
 The Rise of ``Worse is Better''
Consistency can be sacrificed for simplicity in some cases, but it is better to drop those parts of the design that deal with less common circumstances than to introduce either implementational complexity or inconsistency.
However, I believe that worse-is-better, even in its strawman form, has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing, and that the New Jersey approach when used for software is a better approach than the MIT approach.
It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus.
www.jwz.org /doc/worse-is-better.html   (1504 words)

  
  Worse Is Better
The concept known as "worse is better" holds that in software making (and perhaps in other arenas as well) it is better to start with a minimal creation and grow it as needed.
In the Winter of 1991-1992 I wrote an essay called "Worse Is Better Is Worse" under the name "Nickieben Bourbaki." This piece attacked worse is better.
You might think that by the year 2000 I would have settled what I think of worse is better - after over a decade of thinking and speaking about it, through periods of clarity and periods of muck, and through periods of multi-mindedness on the issues.
www.dreamsongs.com /WorseIsBetter.html   (1411 words)

  
  Worse is better - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Worse is better, also called the New Jersey style, is the name of a computer software design approach (or design philosophy) in which simplicity of both interface and implementation is more important than any other system attribute (including correctness, consistency, and completeness).
A section of the article, entitled "The Rise of 'Worse is Better'", was widely disseminated beginning in 1991.
Consistency can be sacrificed for simplicity in some cases, but it is better to drop those parts of the design that deal with less common circumstances than to introduce either implementational complexity or inconsistency.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Worse_is_better   (634 words)

  
 For Better or For Worse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For Better or For Worse (FBorFW) is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that began in September 1979.
Unusual for comic strips, the characters age in For Better or For Worse.
In the past fifteen years, however, readers have taken a totally different view of the situations addressed in For Better or For Worse and many have said that Lynn Johnston's obvious strain to include minorities, controversial issues and her trying to be politically correct has eroded the characters and message of the comic strip.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/For_Better_or_For_Worse   (4950 words)

  
 For Better Or For Worse | United States Golf Association
Most of the time they struggle and play worse than their handicaps, but every so often they both raise their games a few notches and play better than their handicaps.
Believe it or not, the USGA Handicap Research Team has determined that his best score in 20 is normally only two strokes better than his handicap, or an 84; the probability of his recording an 83 twice in 20 rounds is only one in 50.
A good way to think of the range of scores upon which your handicap is based is the old bell curve that schoolteachers always refer to when discussing the range of scores on an exam.
www.usga.org /playing/handicaps/survival_kit/better_or_worse.html   (676 words)

  
 For Better or For Worse
If we are going to take a literal interpretation of this verse, we had better take literal interpretations of the rest of the code as well, obeying each of the 644 rules given by God to humankind.
For example, Leviticus 19: 27 mandates: “You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard,” yet all the men present here today are guilty of disobeying that rule.
I believe a better way to go is to call the service a marriage.
home.hvc.rr.com /uucrt/for_better_or_for_worse.htm   (2668 words)

  
 The Rise of ``Worse is Better''
However, I believe that worse-is-better, even in its strawman form, has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing, and that the New Jersey approach when used for software is a better approach than the MIT approach.
Both early Unix and C compilers had simple structures, are easy to port, require few machine resources to run, and provide about 50%--80% of what you want from an operating system and programming language.
It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus.
www.stanford.edu /class/cs240/readings/worse-is-better.html   (1489 words)

  
 "For Better or for Worse" (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Her creation "For Better or For Worse", based on her family life, is much different than other cartoons.
It's like an 80's sitcom, which is better than anything that passes as a sitcom in 2002.
The animation is very good and look better moving, the look at family life refreshing, and the storylines are ones we can relate to.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0266139   (442 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: For Better or For Worse
Lynn Johnston's For Better or for Worse is a throwback to that earlier era — family stories, drawn in an appealing cartoon style.
Lynn Johnston was already a well established cartoonist in Canada when she started For Better or for Worse.
For Better or for Worse entered its third generation on October 10, 2002, with the birth of their daughter, Meredith Anne Patterson.
www.toonopedia.com /forbettr.htm   (650 words)

  
 Better Worse
Josh may have been motivated through all of it by his love for Beth, and perhaps he didn't notice as much that about 30 people there were motivated by their love of Josh.
It seems to me that For Better or For Worse really means that life isn't always going to be the beach wedding at sunset-but it may really mean that For Worse really never happens because of the network of love and support that friends, and sometimes your family, give to you.
We attended that wedding for the Better part- and when the Worse part tried to ruin it, no one let it.
www.oz.net /~alexh/Essays/2002/better_worse.htm   (567 words)

  
 For Better or Worse
You are happy and in love and smitten and well the worse seems like it would never be more than an argument over whose turn it was to do the dishes.
Well, I am a little older now and definitely a little wiser and I realize that the worse can be pretty bad, but sometimes you realize it is all worth it.
Steve and I have been through some tough times lately and I think the worse is behind us, so here is to bigger and BETTER things.
journals.aol.com /steveandrhiannon/rhiz/entries/2005/10/07/for-better-or-worse/1270   (244 words)

  
 Discovery Channel :: For Better or for Worse
For better or for worse, our couples will take the plunge.
David proposed to Sharon several times, but it wasn't until they were on a beach, when David got down on one knee, pulled out a ring and asked for her hand in marriage, that she finally accepted.
The idea of being married on For Better or for Worse appealed to them because they wanted their family and friends from around the globe to be part of their wedding.
tlc.discovery.com /tuneins/forbetterorworse.html   (311 words)

  
 For Better or for Worse
Worse than I've felt since, since we were split up.
From this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health.
There would be a better time and a better place for a confrontation if needed.
www.loony-archivist.com /eefanfic/storiesam/forbetter.html   (14285 words)

  
 Worse Is Better
What is worse and better depends on your value system.
The "paradox" is that trying to operate correctly is both Worse and Better at the same time.
Summary: The classic essay on "worse is better" is either misunderstood or wrong.
c2.com /cgi/wiki?WorseIsBetter   (1177 words)

  
 Better or worse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Fantasy baseball players spend inordinate amounts of time trying to figure out who will be better than last season, and who won't be quite as good.
Look for these players to be better in 2003 than they were in 2002.
Jim Thome, 1B, Phillies: He doesn't have much room for improvement, but the Pilly lineup he is no a part of is much better than the Indians one of last year, and that should improve his numbers.
astro.temple.edu /~dbrill/better_or_worse.htm   (402 words)

  
 When Doing Better Means Feeling Worse
Professor of organizational behavior, Victoria Husted Medvec, explains why coming in third feels worse than placing second.
Answering that question means reckoning with what you've achieved, with the price you've paid, and with the balance between the two.
She and some colleagues studied the reactions of U.S. athletes to the medals they had won.
www.fastcompany.com /online/15/feelworse.html   (484 words)

  
 For Better or for Worse - Married for Life? Stuck in a Bad Marriage for Life?
"For better or for worse" has been wrongly applied to attacks that arise from "inside" the marriage covenant rather than its correct application to attacks that come from "outside" the marriage covenant relationship.
Does “for better or for worse” mean that you are married for life — regardless of the violations committed against you in the marriage?
“For better or for worse” is a commitment by the marriage partners to rise-up together against those situations that would threaten the marriage covenant relationship from outside the marriage.
www.divorcehope.com /betterorworse-marriedforlife.htm   (1650 words)

  
 For Better or For Worse by E. Mavis Hetherington, book review.
For Better or For Worse by E. Mavis Hetherington, book review.
In addition, she observes divorce can offer a remarkable opportunity for life-transforming personal growth, especially for women and girls.
In For Better or For Worse, she questions myths about divorce like "Children Always Lose Out After a Divorce," and "Men Are the Big Winners in Divorce."
www.wayneandtamara.com /forbetterorforworse.htm   (364 words)

  
 "For Better or For Worse" By Teresa Potter
He just hoped that she understood that he *loved her* -- for better or for worse, for now and for later, for the present and the foreseeable future, whether she wanted him to or not.
He stared at her for a moment as he picked up on what she'd just said, the gerbil in the wheel of his brain going MIA as he attempted to actually process the words into meaning and pull himself back to listening to her.
For better or for worse, she'd told him, it was up to him now.
www.samandjack.net /stories/sjarchive7/tpbetterorforworse.html   (7722 words)

  
 For Better or For Worse, comics, editorial cartoons, email comics, political cartoons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
You are TOONed in to For Better or For Worse, brought to you by
For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston
Since its debut in 1979, "For Better or For Worse" has touched comic strip readers as few cartoons ever do.
www.ucomics.com /forbetterorforworse   (794 words)

  
 purevolume™ | for better,for worse
for better,for worse hasn't posted a blog yet.
for better,for worse hasn't posted any shows yet.
All songs, lyrics and pictures © 2005 for better,for worse.
www.purevolume.com /forbetterforworse   (83 words)

  
 Remembering Hurricane Mitch for Better and for Worse
For Miriam and others living in Honduras’ hot and humid Pacific plain in the department of Choluteca, the storm changed their lives for better and for worse.
After the children are asleep, she often goes outside to take a few deep breaths.
Leaning on her house, she bows her head to pray for a better life for her family.
care.org /newsroom/articles/2003/10/10282003_hondurasmitch_elporton.asp   (1196 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Striking A Cord : A For Better or For Worse Collection: Books: Lynn Johnston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
For 25 years, award-winning cartoonist Lynn Johnston has attracted new readers and intrigued longtime fans with her uniquely humorous stories and drawings in For Better or For Worse.
Striking a Chord continues that impressive record, delivering the latest For Better or For Worse collection just in time for spring.
Johnston's acclaimed strip centers on the everyday life of a Canadian family, humorously portraying both the good and the not-so-good events that are shared by the Patterson clan and their extended family of friends and neighbors.
www.amazon.ca /Striking-Cord-Better-Worse-Collection/dp/0740753150   (457 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: With This Ring : A For Better or For Worse Collection: Books: Lynn Johnston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It Must Be Nice to Be Little: A For Better or For Worse Collection by Lynn Johnston
This has got to be one of the best For Better or For Worse books out there.
The first part of the book begins with Lynn Johnston setting up the book, telling the backgrounds of Michael and Deanna, and what they went through to get to this point, which I think is an excellent way to begin.
www.amazon.ca /This-Ring-Better-Worse-Collection/dp/0740734121   (615 words)

  
 For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston @ Comic Alert!
Suddenly no one but the boring first love was good enough for Liz - I mean, Anthony asked her to wait for him to get out of his unhappy marriage only minutes after he ran off her would-be rapist.
There are only pretentious characters who constantly cry "What about ME?" with contrived storylines that show how saintly the Patterson family is. Liz is never at fault in her relationships; her boyfriends always always ALWAYS cheat on her; in fact, all the Patterson kids' love interests cheat on them.
I realize there are plenty of FBoFW fans who will be angry about this review, but they probably aren't as angry as I am that Lynn Johnston took her wonderful comic strip and ruined the very realism it is supposed to display.
www.comicalert.com /comics/6193-for-better-or-for-worse   (772 words)

  
 Worse is Better
To some extent the problem is one of perception -- there are simply better Lisp delivery solutions than are generally believed to exist and to a disturbing extent the problem is one of unplaced or misplaced resources, of projects not undertaken, and of implementation strategies not activated.
This isn't to say that a better Lisp could not be standardized later, and certainly there should be.
What's worse is that in the particular application, the matrices were all fixed size, and matrix arithmetic would have been just as fast in Lisp as in FORTRAN.
www.naggum.no /worse-is-better.html   (5981 words)

  
 For Better or for Worse TV Show - For Better or for Worse Television Show - TV.com
For Better or for Worse TV Show - For Better or for Worse Television Show - TV.com
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Tell the world what you think of For Better or for Worse, write a review for this show.
www.tv.com /for-better-or-for-worse/show/10996/summary.html   (699 words)

  
 AMU Reprints - Comics and Editorial Cartoons From Universal Press Syndicate - For Better Or For Worse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Lynn Johnston's popular comic strip, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, is about family, humor, domestic ironies, and everyday incidents with children, adults, and yes, even family pets.
Read by people of all ages, the award-winning FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE deals honestly with both the light-hearted and the serious and has, for 25 years, effectively brought families together for laughter, tears, and dialogue.
There may be a fee associated with a customized search, but this fee will be applied to the final cost of your request.
www.amureprints.com /documentation/forbetterorforworse.htm   (142 words)

  
 ALA | Scholarly Communication: For better or for worse
For better or for worse: Preprint servers are here to stay
Better search and retrieval capability, especially across disciplines, will be a boon to the busy scholar.
41 and (“For better or for worse” cont.
www.ala.org /ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2000/may4/betterworse.htm   (1977 words)

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