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A significant amount of everything is done by superstition.

• swyman 12y ago
  Still, important to be occasionally reminded of your own assumptions and corner-cutting.
  • kremlin 12y ago
    Though as the author himself implies, it's not always appropriate to allocate the time necessary to do anything but corner-cutting. "If you say that you don't take this relatively fast road for Linux init scripts, I'll raise my eyebrows a lot. You've really read the LSB specification for init scripts and your distribution's distro-specific documentation?"
  • boomshucka 12y ago
    To be clear, the intention was to point out this (generally bad practice) is practiced in many fields. The intention wasn't to suggest it's ok/good.