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Ask HN: What is your personal Murphy Law tech quote?
1 points by i6mi6 2652 days ago
It is simple to make something complex, and complex to make it simple.
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If a given component is poka-yoke and can only be installed one way, some manager will find a way to force it in upside down during a customer demo while swearing point-blank that they did it right and the line-operator was wrong to scrap off the now-ruined part.