Re:The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest...
by vkou on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:16PM
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> without noticeable results.
To make an analogy, consider that hospitals dump millions of dollars, and physician hours into their trauma wards. Yet, so many of the patients in them keep dying!
Clearly, the rational thing to do is to declare that trauma treatment is a waste of time and money, and is not achieving meaningful results. We should cut physician hours, and re-allocate them to some other area of the hospital, that has a better survival rate. /s
Or, alternatively, consider all the efforts you put into testing and code reviewing your code - yet bugs still slip through to release. If all you do is count the number of bugs that make it to release, with no baseline, you may conclude that all that testing effort is not having noticeable results. We should shut down the Jenkins server, and just let any dev submit whatever we want, without any review.
The problem is that as long as you see homeless people in your city, you will think that there are no noticeable results to these programs. That the situation might be twice as bad if those programs weren't in place... Doesn't really cross the mind.
To make an analogy, consider that hospitals dump millions of dollars, and physician hours into their trauma wards. Yet, so many of the patients in them keep dying!
Clearly, the rational thing to do is to declare that trauma treatment is a waste of time and money, and is not achieving meaningful results. We should cut physician hours, and re-allocate them to some other area of the hospital, that has a better survival rate. /s
Or, alternatively, consider all the efforts you put into testing and code reviewing your code - yet bugs still slip through to release. If all you do is count the number of bugs that make it to release, with no baseline, you may conclude that all that testing effort is not having noticeable results. We should shut down the Jenkins server, and just let any dev submit whatever we want, without any review.
The problem is that as long as you see homeless people in your city, you will think that there are no noticeable results to these programs. That the situation might be twice as bad if those programs weren't in place... Doesn't really cross the mind.