pico:
bperrybap:
The Arduino team rejected this idea as they claimed it ruined the beauty of the board
and that the board with its flaw represents the natural flaws in all things.LOL. Like the natural flaw in this line of reasoning.
Actually, it seems to be a philosophy which permeates their attempts at software engineering as well. Seriously, if there is any substance to this, it could explain quite a lot!
I think it is somewhat of a philosophy or at least a high level of tolerance/acceptance for such things.
One of several comments from Massimo on the subject:
Then I'm fond of the mistake... it makes it not perfect therefore more human... Yes...it could have been all perfectly optimised... but if engineers ran the world it would be an unbearable place where to live
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1212632541
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