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by renewiltord 1826 days ago
NASA systems appear to have the property that they are both perfectly designed when HN commenters do not understand the code and amateurishly designed when they have errors.

This bathtub style curve for perception of NASA design by HN commenters makes me question if the perception correlates with reality.

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You're simply coming to the astute observation that any individual HN commenter who may very well be a genius WRT an extremely narrow area of expertise will be just as hopelessly clueless as the average person when it comes to any area outside of their expertise.
Perfectly designed when it's right and badly designed when it's wrong, you mean? Strange way to state a tautology to make yet another boring statement on ye olde HN commenter.
No, actually, I do not mean that. I mean exactly what I said.