Royal Pain

[David Thornton]

One of the new guys at work said something that was simple yet profound:

    Perfection is a waste of time.

david-FkEgs2FKm2NvBvnq28/GKQ at public.gmane.org


Henry Spencer wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:
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>>Probes on their way to Mars should not get full filesystems either.
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>This happened on the Martian surface, actually, not en route.  And it was
>rather more subtle than a full filesystem. 
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>The issue with that, and some other past spacecraft problems, is that the
>environment is complex and it's a judgement call as to where testing
>effort is best expended.  It's not practical to test all possibilities. 
>In hindsight, it's easy to say "should have tested that one", but there
>are too many such issues.
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>"*Everything* is released before perfection because we can't afford to
>wait long enough.  This is a general truth about engineering." --Les Hatton
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>                                                          Henry Spencer
>                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
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