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
