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Kindness, Wickedness and Safety
- throwaway-1436 7y agoReminded me of Bret Victor's dynamicland and this course on quantum computing: https://quantum.country/qcvc https://quantum.country/qcvc. It's easy to forget that we can use all sorts of technology as mental crutches for making environments more kind and learnable.
- AstralStorm 7y agoI prefer the word robust. Where most if not all reachable failure states are not total disaster. The other word is reasonable: failure states are possible to reason about immediately, correctly and fully.
- executesorder66 7y agoIt's interesting that a guy in Seattle has a South African TLD for his blog.
- emmelaich 7y agoHe got his Phd from Cape Town Uni and probably grew up there. My limited experience of SF left with the impression that fewer than 10% of people who work there grew up in CA let alone SF. Seattle is probably similar.
- executesorder66 7y ago> He got his Phd from Cape Town Uni and probably grew up there. Yeah, I couldn't find anything on his site about that. Where did you find that info?
- scarejunba 7y agoHis LinkedIn. By the way, with no judgment intended, the way your statements are worded is noticeably non-normative. Thought you might like to know.
- executesorder66 7y agoThanks. I don't have a LinkedIn profile, so I wouldn't have been able to see that anyway. What do you mean by non-normative? Can you give an example of a "normative" version of my statements?
- scarejunba 7y agoNo, if I do I will be downvoted and that will impact my ability to post here.
- em-bee 7y agohuh, how so? downvotes on a single comment won't impact you at all. i'd also like to know what you mean.
- scarejunba 7y agoIf you're sufficiently downvoted you'll get soft-banned. I'm sort of on the threshold already.
- em-bee 7y agohmm, i think that should only happens with moderator intervention. if it happens they'll see that your response was requested, so as long as it doesn't contain any rants or attacks it should be fine.
- 0wis 7y agoI can’t resist to make a parallel with good or poor implementation of 6 sigma, 5S or any other lean methodology. If the environment is kind, they will help the worker and indeed increase the productivity. If not, they will squeeze him, and in the end become counterproductive. It seems that avoiding wicked environments is extending far beyond security. Wickedness or fairness may have compounding effects on many subjects. I haven’t found a study about it with a quick search.
- Timothycquinn 7y agoI wonder how much troubleshooting and debugging strategies in early designs play into the long term niceness of systems. Software and hardware developers who love debugging wicked systems may likely lead to the development of wicked products and processes. If debugging is a first class deliverable of the project then maybe the end product will be less wicked? I have seen so many complex systems that are wicked to debug as they had absolutely no formal debugging strategy. Many failed as a result of this. Needless to say, I am a big debug first kinda guy.