Nice @felixsalmon response to my "software sucks" piece. We agree on much but I disagree that this is inevitable. https://medium.com/@felixsalmon/this-is-a-very-lightly-edited-version-of-my-gist-spiel-3fb7eee4c4e5 …
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Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@felixsalmon Why don't you think it is inevitable? Testing, monitoring, etc can help a lot, but perfection seems impossible.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @jaredcosulich
@jaredcosulich@zeynep the question is directionality, not perfection. I think things will inevitably get worse...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @felixsalmon
@jaredcosulich@zeynep …just because it’s *so* much easier to introduce bugs than it is to fix them. Seems logical.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @felixsalmon
@felixsalmon@jaredcosulich It is possible to introduce fewer bugs while building. It just takes more time, and work.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@felixsalmon@jaredcosulich You need to stop outsourcing (as government does) and also not have lines of code etc. as metric, to begin with.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@felixsalmon@jaredcosulich It's not like engineering is simple (though there are differences, no laws of nature to worth with).2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@felixsalmon@jaredcosulich All that sad, a lot of our major glitches are eminently fixable, (or made much better) stuff. We just .. don't.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@felixsalmon I would agree that there is some low hanging fruit that would improve with better effort.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@jaredcosulich @felixsalmon The "low hanging fruit" is widespread, would still be expensive, but it is absolutely improvable.
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