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The myth of 80/20

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• Subject: The myth of 80/20
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:52:53 +0100
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On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 15:27, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> The web is a collection of working broken hacks. 
> That's the ultimate testament for 80/20 designs.

The ultimate testament for 80/20 designs is that 80% of the time the
80/20 is 80% subjective, caused by a lack of vision and/or a bad design
and just a poor excuse to refuse legitimate features!

Eric
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