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"The problem was Gagarin. Already a Soviet hero, the first man ever in space, he and some senior technicians had inspected the Soyuz 1 and had found 203 structu
by jaxytee 13y ago
"The problem was Gagarin. Already a Soviet hero, the first man ever in space, he and some senior technicians had inspected the Soyuz 1 and had found 203 structural problems — serious problems that would make this machine dangerous to navigate in space. The mission, Gagarin suggested, should be postponed."
This helps puts things in perspective when I'm obsessing over trivial things like the max length my RegExp will allow on some arbitrary form field. One of my user's phone won't blow up if he/she wasn't able to use five more characters in a message.
We should do our best to minimize the amount of bugs we code, but when we (inevitably) do code buggy software we can fix it relatively fast. Unless of course one is coding a GPS system for SpaceX or something of the such.