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Wow, are we really that dominated by the startup culture here? You can't think of a single situation where correctness is more important than speed? I've spen
by kscaldef 17y ago
Wow, are we really that dominated by the startup culture here? You can't think of a single situation where correctness is more important than speed?
I've spent most of my career working on systems handling money, at jobs where we actually bought and sold things. When there are bugs in the code, we lose real, quantifiable money. Sometimes being first-to-market with a product or feature is more valuable than the cost of bugs. Sometime a buggy feature makes more money than it loses. But, it's not a given, and it's naive to say that speed is more important than correctness in all (or even most) situations.