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		gizmo 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstan... > "move fast and break things" versus "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE." An alternative analogy is "binary search" versus "linear search". With linear search you don't risk overshooting your target, and it's less chaotic, but you also don't progress nearly as quickly.

lesostep 5 months ago [–]

I wouldn't say that it is a good analogy, since both types of searches in no way change the array they are searching in. While tech products do change lives of their users. Maybe lossless|lossy would be a better analogy?

gizmo 5 months ago | [–]

The state that changes is the location in the search space, in this analogy.

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