It already is that.

The way the author defined water fall makes it sound pretty good to me.

Put your hand up if you are ever programming with poor specs?

Put your hand up if you have a better idea of what really was wanted after the first cut?

And what I really dislike is those that try to design a Swiss Army knife from day one when they haven’t a clue. Jump immediately into over complexity.

Wasn't the whole waterfall model originally a caricature to higlight all the issues one will inevitably encounter if they eliminate feedback loops and go with a strictly sequential development paradigm?

Author here.

Yes, that would be the first paper I linked to in the article, "Managing the Development of Large Software Systems" (Royce, 1970).

The first diagram is the classic waterfall diagram, used there for illustrative purposes as an example of what not to do.

Highly recommend it to people - it's short but a real breathe of fresh air. Mostly still applicable today.

I hate the way they just started saying you have a new message when you really don't. Now I'm going to miss when I really have new messages for a while because I'm not going to go to that site anymore when they say that.

And not letting you read your messages when on your mobile phone unless you use their app is particularly mean. Considering again where they are sending all the information they scrape.

Ah, I see it now. It's a menu option. Never noticed :-)

Show HN? What is that? :-)

I've been reading hacker news for ages, but somehow I missed that there was some convention relating to showing technology on hacker news.

Oh man. You really gotta love the unusual special interests of people.

Super work!

Better still. Stay at home and wash the car by hand.

Leave the car at home and walk through the automat.

Push it is the only responsible action.