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Anonymous Coward writes:
"In a timely way for those of us building a new community at Soylent News, the BBC has collected musings on the importance of failure. A few quotes:
'The quest for perfectionism is 'the enemy of achievement' and that the more we seek to get everything exactly right, the less we actually get done.' Heather Hainbury, Headmistress of Wimbledon High School.
'If the failure was our own fault we become more tolerant of human error, and if the failure was the result of external factors, of circumstance, an unkind coalition beyond our control, then we learn about the limits of willpower and self-determination. We see how our own agency interacts with context and fortune.' Ed Smith, Author and former professional cricketer.
'If your venture doesn't work out, but you did everything you could to make it a success, that's what we call an honest failure, and that's seen as an honourable thing... Whereas if your venture didn't work out because you spent too much time at networking events, you weren't doing your customer research, and you were just lazing around, then that's what we would call a dishonest failure.' Stewart McTavish, Director of IdeaSpace in Cambridge, a community and support network for entrepreneurs."
(Score: 4, Informative) by Barrabas on Tuesday March 04 2014, @05:59AM
(I'm running the show here at SoylentNews)
In the last status meeting everyone agreed that we should have as little JS as possible, and also fail gracefully when it is disabled.
The little we're *probably* going to add will allow inline open/collapse of comments. We felt that the improved functionality warranted the relatively tiny code. We thought initially that this could be done entirely using CSS, but on closer inspection that won't work.
NCommander, the overlord of dev, is well aware of the situation and tries to keep "fail gracefully" in mind when making changes. He points out that this is also important for reading-impaired users. He uses Mosaic (remember that?) for testing.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday March 04 2014, @10:10AM
sudo mod me up