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A comment on Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003).

Re:Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003) by Angostura on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:10AM (#17001147)
Not a big fan of

14. (Edison's Law) "Better" is the enemy of "good".

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Re:Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2003) by jgsteven on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:06PM (#17002920)
Same here. Also this one: 13. Design is based on requirements. There's no justification for designing something one bit "better" than the requirements dictate.

To what level this is true depends on the complexity of the system I suppose, and how accurate the requirements actually are.

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