Re: Hokay, I officially give up...

On Fri, 22 May 2009, Dave Stagner wrote:

> This rule is context-specific. What "barely works" for high availability 
> enterprise computing would be considered phenomenal quality for a small 
> e-commerce website - and a tremendous waste of valuable resources as 
> well. By real-world requirements, the software in your microwave barely 
> works, and the space shuttle avionics barely work. The best we can 
> usually do is to find sufficiently challenging problems that attaining a 
> "barely works" level of quality is at least rewarding.

Ok, so, for every context, no matter what scale of standards they already 
use, you'd shift their standards so that, no matter what they achieve, 
they'd judge it as "barely works"? No matter the improvements made, the 
scale can be shifted so that whatever has been done still gets called 
"barely works". What's the point?

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