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Re:The Engineer’s Lament by bronson on Monday April 27, 2015 @06:18PM (#9449443)
Are profit and perfection correlated? Seems unlikely.
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Re:The Engineer’s Lament by AnimalMuppet on Monday April 27, 2015 @06:58PM (#9449636)
Inversely correlated. Perfection costs.
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Re:The Engineer’s Lament by bronson on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @01:49AM (#9450684)
Apple is an obvious counterexample (high perfection and high profit). Sure, perfection costs more, but does that directly affect profit?
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