slipshod

Especially when the current model in use is slipshod and busted at best.

Yes, a thoughtful design might ignore some use case or another — so too might a slipshod design.

But their Windows 8 videos[2][3] are unbelievably slipshod.

Fiat regulators would've prevented them from running such slipshod operation in the first place.

"This statement of hers is significant mainly because it suggests a slipshod approach to proof, when far stricter standards should apply.

Very slipshod descriptions of the work, next to no details about the company ... and most of their websites tell me that they're strictly amateurs.

I think a more useful analogy is this: there's a large municipal building in town that stores a lot of its citizen's vital records, and they've been slipshod on security.

> but complaints are indicative of someone who's happy to see and treat you like a cog in their machine.... a cog in their slipshod, sand-in-the-gears, barely-operational machine in most cases.

Unfortunately git's slipshod user interface design can't be easily fixed through incremental development and the underlying model won't be changed.

That so many players put up with customer abuse is unfortunate, not least because others will consider Notch's slipshod development practices and infantile product management goals to which one might aspire.

If we had even remotely good methods of quantifying technical debt, we'd probably be much better at avoiding creating it -- as it is, the immediate cost of not having the desired features today is readily apparent, the deferred cost in the form of technical debt of doing it in a slipshod manner rather than taking extra effort to do it right is far less clear.