Irony is not 'a free ride when you've already paid.'

From Jamie Zawinski's DNS Lounge weblog, this is irony:

"I think they really made the right decision in opening before doing any major remodeling of the place. I just kept looking around and noticing things that made my heart sink; it took me back to 2000 when our contractors and inspectors were telling us just one expensive thing after another that we were going to have to do before we'd ever be allowed to open. But as I looked around at Transmission, it was like I was able to see the invisible maze of consequences connecting everything. Like, if they ever want to change this thing over here, that's going to trigger the need to make that thing over there ``accessible'', and once they try to get a permit for that, they're going to find out that they need to pass just one little noise inspection test... And they can't pass that with the front wall being a wooden garage door. And suddenly it's two years later."

"Our big mistake here at DNA was definitely, definitely, definitely that we closed at all. We should have stayed open the whole way through and found a way to do our improvements in stages, no matter how complicated that seemed at the time."

"Ah, hindsight."

JZW was one of the main guys behind Mozilla when it started. Go back and substitute 'Mozilla' for 'DNA'. A complete rebuild. It takes time.

Ross : Link : Discussion Board