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| Feb 11, 2014 at 12:00 | comment | added | Rumi P. | @supercat Both desires exist and that's good. I agree that knowing the true story of the why behind the design has the advantages you posted. But the problem is that asking the question doesn't lead to that knowledge. The answer space gets filled with ideas with high truthiness and low truth. We are not creating knowledge with this type of question, we are creating a mythology, and others believe us, because we are supposed to know, and because it sounds plausible. But remember the proverb: it ain't what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know that just ain't so. | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 17:07 | comment | added | supercat | There is substantial correlation between a desire to know what advantages there are to a particular design choice, and a desire to know the history behind it. Such interest often extends to the question of what other alternatives have been considered either at the time or since, and what was good or bad about those alternatives. Knowing about such things can help designers focus on ideas for improvements that haven't already been tried and found wanting. | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 15:47 | history | answered | Rumi P. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |