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I don't think it's been acceptably solved in the general case.

It's becoming more and more rare for me to have to switch to Chrome to get a website to work correctly/acceptably, and I love it! Great job by the Mozilla team

Is no space project acceptably "big" simply because it doesn't include humans or habitats? We've been to Mars a few times lately, by robot.

Yes, but her formal education is acceptably 'over'. She can go out and do things without worrying about degrees.

To make it acceptably fast, you'll need to write a JIT, which traces and profiles running code, then hot-swaps out JITted routines without missing a beat. You'll need to write a library which abstracts away event-based IO, like the "libev" node.

If none of the available options are acceptably secure, it doesn't do anyone any favors to point to the one that's least broken and tell them to use that. That just leads to people putting sensitive information into a tool that can't protect it.

Optimizing JS for IE10 mobile could be a non-trivial task with diminishing returnsit might not even be possible to get it to run acceptably. So there's a chance that capturing the 2% of the mobile market on Windows Phone isn't cost-effective for Google.

It's hardly a secret that building an acceptably performant web app today requires all kinds of browser-specific tweaks and workarounds. Can I really expect that nobody's going to "fix" the code that made them necessary in some future update to browser X?

Not illegal, but definitely hanging out on the fringes of socially acceptably behavior.

Can someone make a quadcopter that can safely and reliably fly around buildings in a city with an acceptably low probability of failure, redundancy and solid engineering? Sure.

In other words, the risk of some stranger wanting to post as me in HN is acceptably small. The cost of having to install KeePassX, then download my passwords file from Dropbox then decrypt and copy/paste, then make sure the paste register is clear, then securely delete my passwords file every time I borrow a friend's computer is prohibitively high.

He kept at it for years, learned as much as he could from everyone he interacted with, and eventually learned enough to start playing first acceptably, then actually pretty well, within his niche, and today he makes his living full time as a musician. He was simply incapable of was taking to heart all the negative responses he got.

But if it's correct on this point, I don't think it's unreasonable for a competent party -- in this case, a person with a WordPress site that runs acceptably on a commodity VPS -- to expect that it would run acceptably on WPEngine as well. Presumably performance killers like the ones you cite would be just as bad on the VPS -- if not worse, since it's unlikely that a VPS' operator will be able to tune MySQL, PHP, Apache, etc.

Discoverability is particularly important for "control panel" type system administration applets, which are often vital to making your system function acceptably, and whose name, number, hierarchy, and division of functionality seem to mutate with every release. Also, there are switching costs.