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betenoire on July 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Code Is Never “Perfect”, Code Is Only Ever “Good E...

right, flaws are subjective. I'll try that one on my QA team next time they file a bug report ;)

snovv_crash on July 19, 2016 [–]

There is more than one class of flaw. Some are objective, ie. fail to meet spec. Some are subjective, typically where the spec doesn't cover.

If software functions correctly but is unnecessarily hard to use due to (eg.) bad layout, would you still call it perfect?

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