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It definitely feels like survivorship bias. We only remember the good software of the past while forgetting the hundreds of buggy mess created by companies that
by trinovantes 5y ago
It definitely feels like survivorship bias. We only remember the good software of the past while forgetting the hundreds of buggy mess created by companies that are probably defunct by now
- tluyben2 5y agoOracle?
- cestith 5y agoOracle is a marketing department and two law firms in a trench coat.
- rhizome 5y agohttp://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html
- Gigachad 5y agoI wonder if people are forgetting that not long ago, it was acceptable and normal that your word processor could have a bug in it which would crash the entire OS. Or how almost everything was insecure by default.
- oblio 5y agoOr your email client would open and execute every file attached and it would do so with root permissions.
- stonogo 5y agoNobody found that acceptable except computer programmers.
- Gigachad 5y agoWell it didn’t really matter what users thought because that’s how it was. Modern programming and software is massively improved and the failure modes are much safer.
- chongli 5y agoI remember those days. It was never acceptable. We just didn’t have any other choice.