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Unless you are an exceptional person, software has permeated your life. Most of the ways in which it affects you are invisible because it works so well.
by chmod600 4y ago
Unless you are an exceptional person, software has permeated your life. Most of the ways in which it affects you are invisible because it works so well.
- gnulinux 4y agoMy claim is not that "no software has any part that works", my claim is that "all software has some part that is buggy" which seems trivially demonstrably true in my life. I have unfortunately nothing to offer but anecdotes, but I go by my day and almost every moment something fails. I open jira tons of errors. I open an Android app, tons of issues. I open LinkedIn in browser, sometimes text box doesn't work. I open facebook, it has gazillions of weird problem that pop up every moment. In fact, I'll go against the wind a little more. A sibling comment in this chain claimed when software has bugs, it's resolved quickly. Wow, I cannot disagree more. I know bugs in tons of software I use that's been there for years, since I started using it. In fact, my principle is the exact opposite, if a software has a bug, unless you yourself fix it [1] chances are that bug won't be fixed. [1] if open source