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To: Dr. Sivana

“They “fixed” something that wasn’t broken.”

Well, yeah. That’s how Programmers Gone Wild stay employed.

Should be fairly easy to incrementally improve programs, but they fail often.

The monster has escaped the castle. The beast is ignoring commands.


13 posted on 11/19/2019 1:35:10 PM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and ho few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: polymuser

I remember the Dilbert Cartoon, where the pointy-headed boss informed the programmers that they would be paid for every bug they find, so one of the programmers exclaimed, ‘I’m gonna write me a new mini-van!’


14 posted on 11/19/2019 1:36:43 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: polymuser

If you can’t test it don’t release it. I’ve read that Apple is having some issues in the upper circles. Far too much management that’s never been in the trenches or written any code to speak of.

It was a lot simpler for Apple when they had a fewer hardware platforms. Apple only supports 4-5 year old platforms, just imagine what Microsoft has to support.

Every hardware platform is an order of magnitude more complicated.


21 posted on 11/20/2019 7:10:34 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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