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0 pointssrean4y ago0 comments

When things eventually break, its possible that those customers and more would leave also because of that same code.

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Anything is possible. Better to focus on what is likely. Did you stop using google over any of their outages? Most people didn't. These things matter, but people in software overstate them.

sreanOP4y ago

Depends on what's on the line.

Software for automatic trading, dosing radiotherapy, controller for moonshot etc will have different requirements on correctness than ordering of search results.

Ignoring these things can have people killed/ruined and they have.

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