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Re:Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software develop... by agentultra on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:46AM (#21969960)
Ah okay, that makes sense.

re: HTML -- I've had strange requirements come in that required us to work around the HTML spec in order to get the UI to work they way they wanted. We eventually found a better solution...

but the point was that not all requirements are golden; sometimes the customer is plain wrong, ignorant, and stubborn.

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Re:Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software develop... by watwut on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:04PM (#21973297)
Yes, I agree with that. It is not that customer is always right. But it is not that customer is always wrong either. We have to look at requirements, give them benefit of doubt, ask and listen to answers to figure out which are wrong.
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