It's not "better than nothing". It, itself, is nothing at best.
You could argue that "LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) application" instead of "web app" adds nothing more than "web app", and I won't fight you on that.
But surely it's still at least as good as "web app"!
Also "that vague description" was referring to "cage with an engine and wheels". It's crazy to say that's a useless description, when the starting point is "anything in the world".
Yes. Yes, it is useless.
> You can tell from context that it must be software, but "web app" is an obvious improvement from there.
No. No, it's not. It still provides exactly zero context, and contributes exactly zero to the discussion.
> But surely it's still at least as good as "web app"!
Yes. Yes, it is: it contrbutes just as much, nothing.
> Also "that vague description" was referring to "cage with an engine and wheels".
Are we still talking about a top-level comment on a link that says "Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained"?
So, let me see your alternatives:
- "Phabricator is a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) application."
What does this contribute, exactly? Nothing. It's an out-of-context statement that doesn't describe what Phabricator actually is, and why this is relevant to the actual news, of, you know, "Phacility winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained"
- just said "web app"
What does this contribute, exactly? Nothing. It's an out-of-context statement that doesn't describe what Phabricator actually is, and why this is relevant to the actual news, of, you know, "Phacility winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained"
So, no. It's not "better than nothing". Because it is just that, nothing.
>> Also "that vague description" was referring to "cage with an engine and wheels".
> Are we still talking about a top-level comment on a link that says "Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained"?
Phabricator is the overall topic. But the line you quoted was responding to a specific argument, which said "the description is about as useful as describing a car as an cage with an engine and wheels". That's why the line you quoted had the word "camry" in it, in the part you cut out.
