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I'm not sure that's the healthiest attitude. The pursuit here is knowledge, not prestige. Getting personal doesn't do anything for the higher goal. I read once
by cushychicken 10y ago
I'm not sure that's the healthiest attitude. The pursuit here is knowledge, not prestige. Getting personal doesn't do anything for the higher goal.
I read once that the attitude in NASA over Space Shuttle code was very focused not on who wrote the bug, but how to fix the bug. The thought was that who caused the failure was not nearly as important as preventing the failure, as "failure" in that context generally meant loss of human life.
- M_Grey 10y agoOf course it turned out that NASA's two biggest failures were human/cultural, and which led to the loss of two shuttles. Besides, as you say it's not about prestige, it's about knowledge, and if you're publishing something with basic math errors, it leads to questions about whether you'd know "knowledge" if it bit you.
- cushychicken 10y agoRight, but there's something to be said for fostering a culture where fixing errors - in schematics, in research, in source code, whatever - is considered more valuable than assigning blame.
- M_Grey 10y agoAgreed, but when you're dealing with a culture that abhors critical thinking and sees something harmless like this bot as "bullying", we're a long way from that culture of fixing errors.