Cripes, these "Falsehoods programmers believe about ________" are all problems, no solutions
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And other grand, dumb observations about software, like: "94% good may be good enough" And just in general: "You can't please everybody"
Is it better to screw up because you failed to consider every possibility, or because you considered it and decided not to support it?
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All-purpose solution to the "Falsehoods" problem: free text. "If we need to actually do anything with your data, we'll get an AI to mine it"
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[to user] "Don't crowbar your reality into our schema. Let it all hang out!" [to coders] "You! ANALYSE IT."
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The latter. At least in that case you can make the software fail more gracefully.
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the latter
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