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Jul 13, 2009 Over-Engineering

I stumbled upon an old blog post by Neil Davidson that he recycled via Twitter. It was about design and how things bloat. In the post he references another blog by Moishe Lettvin , who worked on the Shutdown menu in Vista. Reading that post, I was amazed to find that 8 people directly and 43 people indirectly contributed to that feature over a year.

Really?

 

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