Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?
by trinovantes on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @03:00PM
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It definitely feels like survivorship bias. We only remember the good software of the past while forgetting the hundreds of buggy mess created by companies that are probably defunct by now
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Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?
by Gigachad on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @05:20PM
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I wonder if people are forgetting that not long ago, it was acceptable and normal that your word processor could have a bug in it which would crash the entire OS. Or how almost everything was insecure by default.
Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?
by oblio on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:15PM
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Or your email client would open and execute every file attached and it would do so with root permissions.
Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?
by stonogo on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:11PM
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Nobody found that acceptable except computer programmers.
Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?
by Gigachad on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:34PM
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Well it didn’t really matter what users thought because that’s how it was. Modern programming and software is massively improved and the failure modes are much safer.
Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?
by chongli on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:48AM
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I remember those days. It was never acceptable. We just didn’t have any other choice.