From 999ffd15b0bcb70ee2e1ef6d08235d797829028e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Kinkade Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:23:05 +0000 Subject: Lessen and tone down the language --- templates/about.tpl | 46 ++++------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) diff --git a/templates/about.tpl b/templates/about.tpl index ddda33b..4631e6c 100644 --- a/templates/about.tpl +++ b/templates/about.tpl @@ -41,51 +41,13 @@ When I wrote the original version of the utility I wasn't then aware of many other free web-based systems that were doing something similar. Now I see that there are a number of other sites that have a very - complete set of tools. However, in my opinion, virtually all of them have a major - flaw: they try to be everything to everyone, and thereby end up being overly - complicated and convoluted. An old axiom comes to mind: "You can please some of the - people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please - all the people all the time." + complete set of tools.
- Consider a program like Microsoft Word, a very powerful word processor. I'd be - willing to bet that about 90% of the users of Word use than 10% of it's features, so - in effect I suspect that the majority of the program is just bulk and useless cruft - for the majority of consumers. -
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- Personally, I subscribe to the notion that less is more. I am a long-time free - software user, and especially the operating systems known as - GNU/Linux and - FreeBSD. - These systems are based on an older operating system called - Unix. Generally speaking, in the - Unix world, one of the design principles has been to write a lot of small programs - that do a particular job very well and then to chain those elegant tools together to - accomplish complex tasks. The other methodology is to write a small number of - programs that do a large number of things, but only do each task marginally well. -
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- What does this have to do with a nutrition database, you ask? Well, the goal of - this system is to do a few things very well. Namely, to give you concise and - trustworthy data about certains food. There are already lots of other tools - available to do other nutrition related things, and I don't see a need to reinvent - the wheel here. Those other tools are only a few keystrokes and clicks away. As an - example, at present I have no intention adding a BMI calculator. There are already - countless other sites - with fine BMI calculators, and to add yet another here would simply clutter up the - interface and add no real value. This is what Favorites and Bookmarks are for in - your browser. -
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- What this means from a user perspective is that the intention is that interface - should never get in your way. You should never have to hunt around for what you - need. You shouldn't have to sift through mounds of extraneous and unwanted data - and tools to find what you want. + This tool aims to be a free and open basis upon which to build a community based + nutrition tool that is totally open to the public. Anyone can take the code that + runs this site and make it better or extend it.
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