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When you say 99% is bad, are you making a normative or positive statement?
by dfc 11y ago
When you say 99% is bad, are you making a normative or positive statement?
- hibbelig 11y agoI don't know what positive and normative statements are, but think of examples of highly available services. Electricity, Water, phone service. What do you think when those are down 3 days (or 72 hours) per year?
- momzer 11y agoI'm saying that the author believes 99% reliability to be “Bad (TM)”. Further evidence in the second paragraph of this post: http://danluu.com/broken-builds/ http://danluu.com/broken-builds/ I didn't say that this is a normative viewpoint in engineering or whether I personally agree with it. As you can see from other commenters, many do hold this view. A sometimes opposing philosophy, however, is “release early, release often” which many open source projects adhere to.
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