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Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by trinovantes on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @03:00PM (#29896979)
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
Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by Gigachad on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @05:20PM (#29898984)
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 (#29899808)
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 (#29900398)
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 (#29900624)
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 (#29905095)
I remember those days. It was never acceptable. We just didn’t have any other choice.
Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by rhizome on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @03:59PM (#29897770)
Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by tluyben2 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @03:04PM (#29897041)
Oracle?
Re:Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing? by cestith on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @03:36PM (#29897467)
Oracle is a marketing department and two law firms in a trench coat.