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This is a good article with a bad (for HN) title. Worth reading if you jumped to comments to decide! A better title (slightly amended from an existing sub-head
by dcminter 5y ago
This is a good article with a bad (for HN) title. Worth reading if you jumped to comments to decide!
A better title (slightly amended from an existing sub-head) would be something like "Are Late-Stage Bugs Really More Expensive?"
- hyperhopper 5y agoI disagree, the meat of the article isn't about software bugs, it is about the current state of academia, and specifically academic research on software. The problem stated is that instead of being able to find widely cited or good papers, any amount of research involves trudging through hundreds of bad, off topic, outdated, unrelated, or otherwise useless papers, just to get an idea of what is being talked about in the field. And even when getting there, what you find may be completely non-practically relevant in the end.