(Henry Spencer) wrote:

Being able to implement your design change tomorrow, so you can start
testing it the day after, does wonders for cost-effective engineering.

That sounds suspiciously circular; "the secret to building stuff
cheaply is to buy stuff cheaply". (Setting aside the fact that
cost-effectiveness and total cost are only loosely coupled.)

D.
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