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I find it hard to believe that you continue using software that crashes "literally hundreds of times a day".

by tdurden 8y ago

user5994461 8y ago
Don't we all use software that crash every day? Maybe not a hundred times but more than zero.
- xiphias2 8y ago
  Of course, for me it's the Julia interpreter that crashes all the time. After I fix my program, and write some new code it crashes again, but differently. But for programs that I haven't written: no, they generally don't crash too often.
- zamadatix 8y ago
  Err... no? That would be ridiculously annoying. If you're having issues every day it's either time to find new software or new hardware.
- tdurden 8y ago
  I don't, but I can see how one could put up with it for a critical piece of software with no alternatives. In this case though, we are talking about hundreds of crashes a day for software that has multiple alternatives.
  - littlestymaar 8y ago
    For a “critical piece of software with no alternatives” you could imagine having one to a few crashes a day, but not hundreds of them. Using such a buggy software for “critical” stuff would be close to insanity ;).
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- arghwhat 8y ago
  Why in the world would you use software that crash every day? Unless it's a piece of code I wish to help improve, I see no reason to waste my time with broken tools.
- alkonaut 8y ago
  Not even a program I use full time that crashed once per week would be acceptable.
- beatgammit 8y ago
  My computer crashes up to every couple days (Ryzen CPU lockup bug), but aside from that, I just don't put up with it. And I only put up with my computer crashing because it's more costly to fix than it is to deal with a couple minutes of downtime every couple days. And even then, I have spent a couple hours trying out patches for the crashes, which involves patching the kernel. I can't think of any software I use with any regularity that crashes daily (well, other than code I'm working on), and yes, I use Firefox as my main browser, so I'm not seeing the behavior mentioned here. I tend to leave applications open for days on end (or until my computer crashes). If something crashes often enough that it becomes expected, I look for solutions and replacements. So yes, crashing isn't normal.

I find it hard to believe that you continue using software that crashes "literally hundreds of times a day".

user5994461 8y ago

Don't we all use software that crash every day? Maybe not a hundred times but more than zero.

xiphias2 8y ago
Of course, for me it's the Julia interpreter that crashes all the time. After I fix my program, and write some new code it crashes again, but differently. But for programs that I haven't written: no, they generally don't crash too often.
zamadatix 8y ago
Err... no? That would be ridiculously annoying. If you're having issues every day it's either time to find new software or new hardware.
tdurden 8y ago
I don't, but I can see how one could put up with it for a critical piece of software with no alternatives. In this case though, we are talking about hundreds of crashes a day for software that has multiple alternatives.
- littlestymaar 8y ago
  For a “critical piece of software with no alternatives” you could imagine having one to a few crashes a day, but not hundreds of them. Using such a buggy software for “critical” stuff would be close to insanity ;).
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arghwhat 8y ago
Why in the world would you use software that crash every day? Unless it's a piece of code I wish to help improve, I see no reason to waste my time with broken tools.
alkonaut 8y ago
Not even a program I use full time that crashed once per week would be acceptable.
beatgammit 8y ago
My computer crashes up to every couple days (Ryzen CPU lockup bug), but aside from that, I just don't put up with it. And I only put up with my computer crashing because it's more costly to fix than it is to deal with a couple minutes of downtime every couple days. And even then, I have spent a couple hours trying out patches for the crashes, which involves patching the kernel. I can't think of any software I use with any regularity that crashes daily (well, other than code I'm working on), and yes, I use Firefox as my main browser, so I'm not seeing the behavior mentioned here. I tend to leave applications open for days on end (or until my computer crashes). If something crashes often enough that it becomes expected, I look for solutions and replacements. So yes, crashing isn't normal.