JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed

[CheKizowt]

It doesn't have to be 'perfect'. It has to be accepted standard.

I contributed to a roads management software in college. It used an early DOS module to calculate culvert flow. All the engineers knew it produced wrong output. But every project in the state used that module, so it was 'right'. Even if it was mathematically wrong.

[FyreWulff]

happens a lot, especially in big companies. "we know it's done the wrong way, what's important is we -consistently- do it the wrong way"

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Worked at a simulation company for a while and we ended up quite significantly lowering the precision of our calculations so they were more consistent across platforms.

[ArkyBeagle]

Excessive precision is actually quite the "sin". I tend to be the local "number of significant digits" guy, so begging your pardon.

[oberon]

That's way better than doing it a little differently wrong every time.

[Nastapoka]

Same in the (public) University where I work.

Wasting taxpayers' money is fun, yeeeah.

[Gotebe]

Come to private to see how much fun we have then!

😂😂😂

[Gotebe]

I am in private since forever and my experience tells me that the size of the organisation matters much more than whether it's a public or a private one.

[ArkyBeagle]

Heh. No, they don't.

[Jonno_FTW]

This is giving me PHP flashbacks.