Re:Inventing Favicon.ico
by enraged_camel on Sunday March 29, 2015 @10:56PM
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>>But, we do know that those procedures and processes exist for that very reason : to ship a higher quality product
Not always. It is possible for procedures and processes to exist simply because someone somewhere is trying to justify receiving a paycheck. This is especially true for large bureaucracies.
And sometimes, procedures and processes exist because the organization simply does not realize that they are outdated and unnecessary. "This is how we have always done it" is a common saying in large organizations that have been around for a long time.
Bottom line: don't put much faith in procedures and processes. Question everything.
Even though this article is just intended to be a cute quip about the origins of something we all take for granted, if I were a person who was negatively affected due to the author skipping 'corporate bureaucracy at Microsoft'( perhaps a victim of this kind of bug[1] ), i'd probably find the authors "how risky was this feature?" statement to be pretty irritating.
Is there any way to know that such a bug would have been included had they followed procedure? Of course not. But, we do know that those procedures and processes exist for that very reason : to ship a higher quality product
[1]: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms99-018