[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Ferdinand_Lovetree

Maybe having bugs in software is our way of making computers more humanlike....... fallible.

Close - we have bugs in our software because computers can't yet program themselves. Their rely on US to give them faulty instructions. :wink:

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Ferdinand_Lovetree

Maybe having bugs in software is our way of making computers more humanlike....... fallible.

Close - we have bugs in our software because computers can't yet program themselves. Their rely on US to give them faulty instructions. :wink:

[mike6024]

Originally Posted by Sam Kleinman

This inherently buggy nature of modern computing technology is unavoidable, and it’s something that is in desperate need of being fixed. I’d say get something 100% right before you work on making it 200% better.

Getting something 100% right costs a lot less than making it 200% better.

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by mike6024

Getting something 100% right costs a lot less than making it 200% better.

Actually, in bugfixing, this is untrue. Fixing bugs is by far the hardest task in developing software, much more so than adding new features.

It's said the last 1% in software development takes 99% of the time.

--bdj

[mike6024]

Originally Posted by mike6024

Getting something 100% right costs a lot less than making it 200% better.

Wow, I'm dumb. I've been sick the past couple days and my head is all cloudy. What I meant to say is: Getting something 100% right costs a lot more than making it 200% better. Thanks for pointing out my brainfart, BigDaddyJ.

[James]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Close - we have bugs in our software because computers can't yet program themselves. Their rely on US to give them faulty instructions. :wink:

My version (that I've been using a lot around the office lately): We have problems with software because computers can't yet understand that they need to do what we want them to, not what we tell them to.