Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update" Yesterday

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, talk.politics.misc, alt.security
Subject	Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update" Yesterday
Date	2024-07-20 04:30 +0000
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:53:05 -0400, 26yh.0712 wrote:

>  'Complexity' CAN be a sort of weapon ... but in the
>    whole computer universe - and I got in pre-PCs - we're mostly looking
>    at 'feature creep' ... with every developer thinking they're doing
>    good. I've writ enough complicated software - and then you get back
>    to it and it's "Oh ... wouldn't it be great if it could do *this* and
>    *that* and look nicer ?". Pretty soon you have spaghetti code even
>    you yourself can't follow nor find all the possible flaws within.

Feature creep cna happen up front. We've has a couple of programmers that 
wrote very flexible, complicated code to cover every future possibility 
they could think of. 20 years later the future stuff never happened and 
you're left with a maintenance nightmare.

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  Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update" Yesterday yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-07-19 16:45 +0042
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                Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update" Yesterday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-20 06:21 +0000
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                Re: Wonderful Windows Zaps Banks/Transport/Media after "Update" Yesterday Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-22 06:05 +0000
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