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This reminds me.. I got to update the old.. "if a bus hits Tim" documents here at work.

• makmanalp 17y ago
  It's nuts how many people and businesses just never consider this. I'd have thought that they'd be especially more careful since there's no binding contract or whatever between the developers. As a separate sidenote (don't know if this is the case with centos), this might be one issue with the benevolent dictator for life method of running things, as efficient as it may be.
  • icey 17y ago
    We actually refer to the "Train Number" on any of our given projects here. The train number is the number of people that could get hit by a train before the project fails. If the number is 1 (meaning there is a single critical point for the project), then we know that cross training has to occur.
    • nixme 17y ago
      I've heard it called Bus Factor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor) or Truck Number (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/wikibase?TruckNumber http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/wikibase?TruckNumber).
      • icey 17y ago
        Yeah, we use Train number because the new light rail system is right outside our office and it looks like someone damn near gets hit from walking in front of the train about 3 times a day.
  • pavel_lishin 17y ago
    I worked for a place where our boss quit with less than two weeks notice. At least he was still quite friendly to us, and would answer any questions we had over AIM.