“But he does good work.”

Re:“But he does good work.” by srtjstjsj on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @12:15PM (#11946816)

It may be ineffective, but it's not "stupid". Most people aren't willing and able to sacrifice themselves to be unsung heroes for a larger cause.

Have you ever had a software system with a bug that only appeared in integration tests, or production environment? Every individual component satisfied its contract tolerably well, or misbehaves but in a way that isn't detectable locally, but the system as a whole has emergent misbehaviors. That's a real problem, not imagined.

See also: Tragedy of the Commons, where bad things happen even when no one individual is clearly solely responsible.

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Re:“But he does good work.” by guard-of-terra on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @12:20PM (#11946859)

"Most people aren't willing and able to sacrifice themselves to be unsung heroes for a larger cause"

That's the problem. That's why our rights, freedoms and safety (real one, not theatrical) are taken from us, bit by bit, and we're unable to do anything.

Happens for a decade, slowly but surely, before my eyes.

We've got to spend some effort on defense, every one of us.

When you have a bug in integration tests, you shuffle your interactions while it gets fixed. When you have Tragedy of the Commons, you rework your social system until there's no more any Tragedy.

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