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bigstrat2003yesterday at 3:27 PM1 replyview on HN

That is indeed what one should do IMO. We've known for a long time now in the ops world that keeping versions stable is a good way to reduce issues, and it seems to me that the same principle applies quite well to software dev. I've never found the "but then upgrading is more of a pain" argument to be persuasive, as it seems to be equally a pain to upgrade whether you do it once every six months or once every six years.


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benoauyesterday at 9:45 PM

The 'pain' comes from breaking changes, at worst if you delay you're going to ingest the same quantity of changes, and at best you might skip some short-lived ideas.