He/Him; Senior Software Developer, IT Swiss-army-knife, 3 programming blades, 1 hardware, 1 networking and infrastructure and a corkscrew. The tweezers have long since been lost. (Recent ADHD diag.)
Any probability repeated often enough becomes a certainty.
Comes into play when i hear things like: "But that is unlikely to happen" or "It's too rare to consider".
Mostly heard by people who don't deal with a) the consequences of "rare" events, b) new devs/non-techies who don't understand the scale of how fast computers can make 1 error into milions c) people who don't grok Murphy's law
He/Him; Senior Software Developer, IT Swiss-army-knife, 3 programming blades, 1 hardware, 1 networking and infrastructure and a corkscrew. The tweezers have long since been lost. (Recent ADHD diag.)
The nuclear option!
Employed well when no one group/person wants to Own a product/solution: "Ok so no own wants to own it? you want the Devs to own it? OK, we don't need it and we'll turn it off."
"NO NOT LIKE THAT! WAIT!"
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Any probability repeated often enough becomes a certainty.
Comes into play when i hear things like: "But that is unlikely to happen" or "It's too rare to consider".
Mostly heard by people who don't deal with a) the consequences of "rare" events, b) new devs/non-techies who don't understand the scale of how fast computers can make 1 error into milions c) people who don't grok Murphy's law
"So then if it does happen, it must be okay for the servers to crash and all the data to be corrupted. Okay then, next topic :)"
The nuclear option!
Employed well when no one group/person wants to Own a product/solution: "Ok so no own wants to own it? you want the Devs to own it? OK, we don't need it and we'll turn it off."
"NO NOT LIKE THAT! WAIT!"