If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly

Re:If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least... by zxcvbnm on Friday February 16, 2024 @04:50PM (#39403438)

Wrong, errors should not go unnoticed, let alone helping them to propagate. Cascading effects should be kept on a short leash. System takes one step in the wrong direction, kill it. The two most miserable things are, things not happening and there's no feedback on why, and, the other extreme, when things are overengineered and no one can predict where problems might cascade to.

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Re:If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least... by 12_throw_away on Friday February 16, 2024 @07:12PM (#39404759)

lord grant me the confidence of someone who reads a thoughtful explanation of a problem and its solution by Raymond Chen and responds with "Wrong, "

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Re:If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least... by B1FF_PSUVM on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:56PM (#39405906)

It's hilarious, Chen has been doing this right - on the bleeping internets for all to see - for thirty years and we've greenhorns going "Nah, mate, you're doing it wrong."

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Re:If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least... by thrwwycbr on Friday February 16, 2024 @07:51PM (#39405092)

Maybe you should build an operating system from scratch, keep building it for more than 25 years and then come back to revise your comment?

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