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> it's the kind of thing that tends to be known by grizzled infrastructure veterans who had good mentors in their chequered past—and not so much by the rest of
by pmoriarty 4y ago
> it's the kind of thing that tends to be known by grizzled infrastructure veterans who had good mentors in their chequered past—and not so much by the rest of us
This is why your systems should be designed by grizzled infrastructure veterans.
- dang 4y agoThat reminds me of Jerry Weinberg's dictum: whenever you hear the word "should" on a software project, replace it with "isn't". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=590075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=590075
- kqr 4y agoThat goes along with "almost never" which is a synonym for "sometimes" and "maintenance-free" which is a synonym for "throw it out and buy a new one when it breaks".
- duckmysick 4y ago"Almost never" -> "more often than you would want"
- mst 4y agoThis is brilliant and I suspect generalises to "won't" when reading RFCs.