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Re:Defects are not the fault of programmers by tom-thistime on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:04PM (#23470281)
That might or might not be accurate, but I still care about utility. There are a lot of truths that don't have any utility for me. I celebrate not knowing most of those truths.

I mean do you want to be on this call? ... A: "One point seven million dung beetles can fit in my suitcase." B: "Let's get back to work." A: "Utility has no bearing on truthfulness."

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Re:Defects are not the fault of programmers by tengbretson on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:25PM (#23470510)
I do not want to be on that call. However, if following this exchange, person B goes on to write a blog post titled "One point seven million dung beetles CAN NOT fit in my suitcase" and justifies this claim by saying that knowing how many dung beetles fit in a suitcase is not a useful thing to know, then despite how right they are about the utility, their conclusion is wrong.
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Re:Defects are not the fault of programmers by tom-thistime on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:38AM (#23477453)
Sure. They should claim "it doesn't matter," not "it's false." By the end of the article I felt the author said something like "substitute more design space and dev activity for blame analysis."
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