{"id":186,"date":"2007-03-18T12:46:33","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T18:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/186"},"modified":"2007-03-18T12:46:33","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T18:46:33","slug":"buggy-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/186","title":{"rendered":"Buggy software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should I love or hate buggy software?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, the hate part is somewhat obvious, in that it interrupts work and takes one out of flow and dammit I paid $apple and I should get orange performance, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But the love part comes from the following facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in cases where I&#8217;m paid by the hour, I make the same amount of money for struggling for a hour with OPB as for doing, ya know, some real work.<\/li>\n<li>I learn things from struggling with bugs. Not only &#8220;this crap doesn&#8217;t work in this situation&#8221; (which <em>is<\/em> commercially valuable knowledge), but also things about the technologies involved, theoretically things that transfer to other contexts. Wasn&#8217;t it Heidegger that had a whole theory about how tools are invisible until they fail to work?<\/li>\n<li>(third entry because a list of two things is weird.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should I love or hate buggy software? I mean, the hate part is somewhat obvious, in that it interrupts work and takes one out of flow and dammit I paid $apple and I should get orange performance, etc. But the love part comes from the following facts: in cases where I&#8217;m paid by the hour, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,27,32,51],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-design","tag-information-technology","tag-learning","tag-software","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}