The option to conduct a cheap test run can be very valuable. It’s easy to lose sight of quite how valuable. Aza Raskin, who was lead designer for the Firefox browser, cites the late Paul MacCready as his inspiration on this point. MacCready was one of the great aeronautical engineers, and his most famous achievement was to build the Gossamer Condor and the Gossamer Albatross, human-powered planes that tore up the record books in the late 1970s.
进行成本低廉的试运行非常有价值。我们很容易忽视这到底多么有价值。在这一点上,火狐浏览器(Firefox browser)的首席设计师阿扎•拉斯金(Aza Raskin)引述了启发了他的人物,已故的伟大航空工程师保罗•麦克雷迪(Paul MacCready)的事例。麦克雷迪最著名的成就是建造了两架人力飞机“蝉翼神鹰”(Gossamer Condor)和“蝉翼信天翁”(Gossamer Albatross)。在20世纪70年代末,这两架飞机打破了各项纪录。
One of MacCready’s key ideas was to develop a plane that could swiftly be rebuilt after a crash. Each test flight revealed fresh information, MacCready figured, but human-powered planes are so feather-light that each test flight also damages the plane. The most important thing a designer could do was to build a plane that could be rebuilt within days or even hours after a crash – rather than weeks or months. Once the problem of fast, cheap experimentation was solved, everything else followed.
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