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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by ams6110 on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:58PM (#18962578)
> software that solves the problem (poorly) now is better than software that doesn't exist.

That has always been the case and is about as good a one-line summary of the software industry as I can think of.

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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by fnord123 on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:08PM (#18964482)
It could be a one line summary of Richard Gabriel's famous essay "The Rise of "Worse is Better""

https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

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Re:Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? by chrisco255 on Monday January 21, 2019 @09:24PM (#18965527)
Done is better than good!
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