Somebody just threw the design together with the bare minimum care and effort. Didn't work, tweaked it, seems to work. Ship it. 1 out of 100 short/fail? That m

Somebody just threw the design together with the bare minimum care and effort. Didn't work, tweaked it, seems to work. Ship it. 1 out of 100 short/fail? That means 99 worked fine. WORKED PERFECTLY FINE. If you read HN you probably write software, and may have seen a fair amount of code written with the same philosophy ... some people would say it's appropriate sometimes, anything more is a waste of expensive developer time ... but clearly in some situations it's not fine.