There's a reason journalism is called "the first draft of history", and not the final draft.
Also, the idea that the errors software developers make don't have a broad impact on society is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser for me, but that might be a function of the subfield of software that I happen to work in.
Re:Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books
by kortilla on Saturday February 09, 2019 @03:38AM
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>Also, the idea that the errors software developers make don't have a broad impact on society is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser for me
It’s also an eyebrow raiser to me, given that’s not even close to what I said. “Having an impact != misrepresent”.
I suspect I’ll be a long time waiting for you to make any correction to your comment that misrepresented what I said though, which is funny given the conversation.
So yes, mistakes are expected initially. But the job of the author is to get enough outside eyes to fix it. Historians go to great lengths to ensure they aren’t just repeating a single view of an event. Most authors do not seem to make any similar effort.