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Users shouldn’t ever need to adapt to computer crashes like this. Software should always auto save or have recovery files or something. As a principle, software
by josephg 3y ago
Users shouldn’t ever need to adapt to computer crashes like this. Software should always auto save or have recovery files or something. As a principle, software should hold anything a user inputs with reverence.
- SanderNL 3y agoI agree. Maybe as a dev I've become cynical and don't trust anything. Least of all some app holding my document. Makes me think of the "Voting software" xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030 https://xkcd.com/2030 "I don't quite know how to put this, but our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us, everyone will die."
- belenos46 3y agoYou think that's cynical? I must be some avatar curmudgeonliness then. I'm pretty sure that what's actually going on is that everything we think of as a 'profession' is that way, and that people are in fact dying because of it. The difference is that devs are honest about it.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoYes, however you have to be sure every single program across decades is written with those rules in mind. Hard on any OS, but a lost cause on */Linux.