alt Hacker NewsI don't understand what this is meant to communicate. The standard is either good or it isn't. "Good effort" is not an engineering assessment.
I don't understand what this is meant to communicate. The standard is either good or it isn't. "Good effort" is not an engineering assessment.
Your objection is that they should be "designing it right from the beginning" but that applies to all realms of endeavour. The reason they didn't is human frailty.
If everyone simply designed everything right from the beginning we would live in nirvana.