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I see this all the time in software development. No media hype involved. I worked with a senior engineer who had a brilliant knack for finding design flaws in
by perrygeo 4y ago
I see this all the time in software development. No media hype involved.
I worked with a senior engineer who had a brilliant knack for finding design flaws in review (usually security or performance issues) and would put in heroic efforts to fix them before they went to production. Someone privately called him out as an obstructionist - "He's constantly worried about BadThing happening, but it never does! He's just wasting time.". I politely corrected them - "Did you ever consider that BadThing never happens BECAUSE he's constantly worried about it?"
- Jtsummers 4y agoRelated: https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.... "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened" by Repenning and Sterman.
- BitwiseFool 4y agoI'm getting a 404, is there an archive link elsewhere? Edit: It's been fixed.
- Jtsummers 4y agoFixed the link.
- Swenrekcah 4y agoNobody got credit for the site being up so the sysadmin quit