[LEAPSECS] happy anniversary pips

Clive D.W. Feather clive at davros.org
Wed Feb 12 16:55:33 EST 2014


Warner Losh said:

>> Yes. I've never been able to understand why facing the guts of this problem has been evaded. Its a great computer-science project - it should be fun!

>

> The problem stems not because one person can't climb the complexity hill to get it right: several have. The problem comes more from the large numbers of people in my industry that have failed to climb the complexity hill due to apathy, incompetence or both.


Or they (or their bosses) have done a cost-benefit analysis and concluded
it's not worth fixing.

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