How low has the SW development bar gone, if "it's okay" now means "at least it's not directly killing people"?
I though that was the way ever since OS/2 failed. Getting stuff out to customers has priority over quality control.
The bug is now patched, so the downtime appears to be less than 24 hours from discovery to fix. The original error is clearly a major blunder, but Oculus have responded properly.
It gets that low every time a hospital underfunds IT staff and makes horrible project management decisions and product buying decisions.
I've seen that first hand. There's a bunch of corpses at the IT entrance of people who've tried to turn that around.
In other words, comparing to the worst possible outcome is, by definition, not a very high bar.
Something like this probably will happen with computer assisted surgery or medical procedures, or an aircraft in flight. Just a matter of time.
