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by snowwindwaves 2553 days ago
For anyone writing software controlling machines it is pretty much the status quo. It has to be darn near perfect, updating it later if it is even possible will be expensive and inconvenient As much as it is a shitty environment if you have 6 months to fix it and all of the company resources you can think of to ask for that is lots of time.
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Having 6 months to fix it would have been fine.

Instead what they've had is 2 weeks to fix it for 6 months, which is a very different kettle of fish.

Hopefully whoever is in the hot seat knows the name of the game. First you ask for 30 days, then you ask for 30 more.