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> sometimes it's important to make a release and patch it later

Yeah, the trick is to know when these "sometimes" are. For example, the "move fast break things" rule was applied for India's biometric unique ID card which resulted in people climbing trees to authenticate their cards to get their daily food [0], not allowing access to power/education/daily benefits [1] or transferring benefits to someone else due to errors and fighting to get your daily wages because of "system errors" [2].

Life is not software. There are some releases which you cannot patch.

[0] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/need-internet-to-bu...

[1] https://scroll.in/article/834418/by-making-aadhaar-mandatory...

[2] https://scroll.in/article/833487/aadhaar-trouble-how-a-woman...

parent tchalla 9 years ago

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