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Originally Posted by chaley
I know you are injecting humor and perhaps you are right, but those who build systems must care. For example, how happy would you be if you make reservations for something such as air travel, hotels, or whatever; only to discover that your reservations were ignored because of simultaneous transactions? Or perhaps with some card payment that throws you into overdraft because it wasn't ACID?
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Maybe that's what happened when that Russell Square hotel tried to tell me that Singapore time was 8 hours behind GMT and on that basis tried to charge me for an extra night's accommodation. That was in pre-Brexit times when Thatcher occupied No 10, now her successors have a fantasy of London becoming Singapore-on-Thames.
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Originally Posted by chaley
Sometimes I think the rush to "agile programming" where one ships semi-working prototypes, has destroyed the notion that correct is better than fast. But then I am an old fart...
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The woes to which you refer started long before 'agile programming' (whatever that is) became fashionable. In the latter part of last century many so-called 'skunkworks projects' suffered the same malady.
BR