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Re:Counterfeit Macbook charger teardown: convincing outside ... by ploxiln on Monday March 21, 2016 @03:19AM (#11326651)
Somebody just threw the design together with the bare minimum care and effort. Didn't work, tweaked it, seems to work. Ship it.

1 out of 100 short/fail? That means 99 worked fine. WORKED PERFECTLY FINE.

If you read HN you probably write software, and may have seen a fair amount of code written with the same philosophy ... some people would say it's appropriate sometimes, anything more is a waste of expensive developer time ... but clearly in some situations it's not fine.

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