- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:56:03 -0500
On 11/24/10 1:26 PM, Charles Pritchard wrote: >> But the upshot is that people make mistakes. If you don't assume they >> will, you come to grief. > Assuming they'll make mistakes is different than having zero faith in > their competence. I have zero faith in across-the-board competence. That is, given a possible mistake it _will_ be made. By a lot of people (though possibly a small fraction of the total number of people involved). If the mistake is subtle, it'll be made by a large fraction of people. The majority won't make any given mistake unless the situation is really egregious. A fairly small minority of web authors making a mistake still translates to tens of millions of users or more being affected by it. -Boris
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