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charcircuit • yesterday at 4:28 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

I would rather things be done "incompetently" than nothing being done at all.


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10111001 • yesterday at 4:51 PM

> I would rather things be done "incompetently" than nothing being done at all.

Engineers of today aren't better than engineers of yesterday, they just have access to new technology (and new footguns).

I'd rather have a well-designed legacy system that does the job well, than an incompetently designed "modernized" system that doesn't.

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AngryData • yesterday at 9:53 PM

I don't. Incompetence costs lives. Using old tech that has worked for decades costs a couple dollars extra to maintain for a system worth millions.

ethin • yesterday at 8:08 PM

Why? Do you want more people to die? The only way to migrate a system like this safely is to do it competently and slowly.

wat10000 • yesterday at 4:42 PM

Nothing being done at all means the system continues working as it is. Something being done incompetently means more people die.

superxpro12 • yesterday at 7:31 PM

what an absolutely awful take.