How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal

Re:How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal by dfc on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:17PM (#10813382)

When you say 99% is bad, are you making a normative or positive statement?

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Re:How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal by momzer on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @07:45PM (#10815437)

I'm saying that the author believes 99% reliability to be “Bad (TM)”. Further evidence in the second paragraph of this post: http://danluu.com/broken-builds/

I didn't say that this is a normative viewpoint in engineering or whether I personally agree with it. As you can see from other commenters, many do hold this view. A sometimes opposing philosophy, however, is “release early, release often” which many open source projects adhere to.

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Re:How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal by hibbelig on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @05:38PM (#10814872)

I don't know what positive and normative statements are, but think of examples of highly available services. Electricity, Water, phone service. What do you think when those are down 3 days (or 72 hours) per year?

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