[HN Gopher] Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
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       Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)
        
       Author : pncnmnp
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-02-04 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | esafak wrote:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCCigccBzIU
        
       | morphle wrote:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLEOZO1GwVc
        
       | pieterr wrote:
       | https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/video-audio/Noorderlicht...
        
       | Jtsummers wrote:
       | > The management didn't want faultless programs because the
       | company derived its stability from maintenance contracts.
       | 
       | The bane of my existence. Companies like these get a decade long
       | contract with governments and large enterprises (typically
       | outside the "tech" space) to maintain a system, and at the end
       | it's often worse than when they started the contract. Grifters,
       | all of them.
       | 
       | The worst offenders are the defense contractors. They know they
       | don't have to work, sunk cost fallacy is strong in government
       | contracting.
        
       | rednab wrote:
       | https://youtu.be/mLEOZO1GwVc?t=735
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       | The Dutch language quote as displayed: "We mogen niet uit
       | nonchalance fouten in een programma aanbrengen. Dat moeten we
       | systematisch en met zorg doen.".
       | 
       | Feel free to run that through your favorite translator.
       | 
       | The subtitles: "We should not introduce errors through sloppiness
       | but systematically keep them out."
       | 
       | The translator missed a _very_ dry and very Dijkstra joke.
        
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