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Why do people always try to break things? This is a serious question pertaining to human nature, not a complaint. I've noticed that anytime I demo something I'v
by riffer 16y ago
Why do people always try to break things? This is a serious question pertaining to human nature, not a complaint. I've noticed that anytime I demo something I've built, if the person/people I'm showing have control of the demo they go try to test the outer boundaries of whatever I've built. What makes us want to do that?
- crystalis 16y agoYou get the one-two of potential insight into the particular workings and potential 'unintended cool thing'.
- DevX101 16y agoErrors at the edge cases are usually the hardest to detect.
- anigbrowl 16y agoBecause of what it tells us about the design and utility. This particular tool looks like it will keep working through inevitable period of hyperinflation everyone keeps warning me about, all the way up to the when we cross the National Debt Event Horizon, at which point accounting is suddenly agreed to be an entirely new art form, and computing a restaurant tip requires a PhD in materials science.
- awakeasleep 16y agoIt isn't just human nature. If you have a dog or a cat or have watched videos of animals on Youtube you'd see it has to do with most animals on planet earth. I have a theory: Things have evolved to try and do everything they can do, because nothing is smart enough to act on foresight alone.
- MichaelApproved 16y agoTesting with crazy figures and data makes sense because it can magnify a bug you wouldn't have noticed with normal use. For example you may catch a math error that's only obvious with big numbers.