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> there is a process in place to hand over the project to a trusted party in the worst case scenario. Sorry for being a pedant, but it's hard to overstate how
by c7b 4y ago
> there is a process in place to hand over the project to a trusted party in the worst case scenario.
Sorry for being a pedant, but it's hard to overstate how insignificant this timeframe is compared to "forever". Even if we talk about forever in practical terms of when the earth will be consumed by the sun or something like that. Why not just be honest and say "Built to last a lifetime"?
- whoooooo123 4y ago> Sorry for being a pedant HN is the last place on earth where anyone should apologise for being a pedant.
- robertlagrant 4y agoTechnically HN isn't a place on earth.
- another2another 4y agoStop it, you guys are literally killing me.
- robertlagrant 4y ago> literally Don't.
- Koshkin 4y agoExcept that it’s on earth.
- whoooooo123 4y agoTechnically HN's servers are located on Earth, so the technical part of HN is technically on Earth.
- stonogo 4y agoI have similar pedantic objections to that, since "a lifetime" isn't even well-defined. "Forever" might be an unachievable goal, but it's a goal which implies specific priorities.
- n4bz0r 4y agoGoing deeper. "Built to last" is shorter and seemingly checks all the marks.
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- chillfox 4y agoLifetime has been significantly cheapened and hollowed out as a meaning full word when it comes to products, thanks to the ever present unspoken "lifetime of the product". In the context of products if I think of "lifetime" as about 2 years, maybe a little less or more depending upon the company, but far less than a decade in all cases.