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Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product by CamperBob2 on Friday February 13, 2015 @10:21PM (#9048610)
The notion that this is an either-or situation, where a device must necessarily be prone to either false alarms or failure to alert during a true emergency, makes me hope that you (and most of the other posters in this thread) don't actually work for companies that make these things.
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Re:Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product by bicknergseng on Friday February 13, 2015 @11:46PM (#9048789)
I don't... and have tremendous respect for people who build software and systems that are "mission critical."

They're in the same situation as civil engineers and the like. They build a bridge that falls down, they go to jail or are financially ruined. We make software that falls over and people pay us for updates.

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