From: Mike N. 


To give you some context -

"Choices = Headaches"
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html
"Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose
between nine, count them, nine options: two icons and seven menu items. The
two icons, I think, are shortcuts to menu items. I'm guessing the lock icon
does the same thing as the lock menu item, but I'm not sure which menu item
the on/off icon corresponds to....."

http://www.drizzle.com/~lettvin/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html
".....In Windows, this model breaks down simply because there are far
too many developers to access one central repository -- among other
problems, the infrastructure just won't support it. So Windows has a tree
of repositories: developers check in to the nodes, and periodically the
changes in the nodes are integrated up one level in the hierarchy. At a
different periodicity, changes are integrated down the tree from the root
to the nodes. In Windows, the node I was working on was 4 levels removed
from the root. The periodicity of integration decayed exponentially and
unpredictably as you approached the root so it ended up that it took
between 1 and 3 months for my code to get to the root node, and some
multiple of that for it to reach the other nodes....."

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