alt Hacker News>What kind of 'useful'?
Someone says it's useful to them. If you get a consensus where >50% find it useful, then it's probably useful.
>What kind of 'useful'?
Someone says it's useful to them. If you get a consensus where >50% find it useful, then it's probably useful.
Ok, that's empirically useful by argument of popularity.
By that same measure: correctness, maintainability, and efficiency are not that useful.
I wasn't saying usefulness is not important, I'm saying this post conveniently crammed the hardest problem of writing software into a fuzzy adjective.