Program logic bugs vs input/environmental errors

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/7/2014 3:54 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> It's a salesman's whole freaking *job* is be a professional liar!

Poor salesmen are liars. But the really, really good ones are ones who are able 
to match up what a customer needs with the right product for him. There, he is 
providing a valuable service to the customer.

Serve the customer well like that, and you get a repeat customer. I know many 
salesmen who get my repeat business because of that.

The prof who taught me accounting used to sell cars. I asked him how to tell a 
good dealership from a bad one. He told me the good ones have been in business 
for more than 5 years, because by then one has run out of new suckers and is 
relying on repeat business.

> But then again, slots and video poker aren't exactly my thing anyway. I'm from
> the 80's: If I plunk coins into a machine I expect to get food, beverage, clean
> laundry, or *actual gameplay*. Repeatedly purchasing the message "You loose"
> while the entire building itself is treating me like a complete brain-dead idiot
> isn't exactly my idea of "addictive".

I found gambling to be a painful experience, not entertaining at all.