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Metrics considered dangerous

Wandering Thoughts | June 17, 2006, 1:18 a.m. | Original

It's a general truism in software development that metrics are oftendangerous, because people will naturally work to what you pay attentionto (to summarize). If you pay attention to bugs closed, people closebugs; if you pay attention to lines of code written, people write code.The dangers inherent in this are hopefully obvious.

(In fact it happens outside of software development too; consider allof the schools that are busy 'teaching to the test', because variousstandardized tests have become so important

其實，文學節是存在的

tswtsw | June 17, 2006, 12:41 a.m. | Original

．1/7 秋螢的現代詩跨媒體朗誦會
多年舉辦，品質保證。

．3/7（1800-2030）「詩．人．光影」

我們向鐵欄投擲以花／花就成了火焰／於是　有了光／也有了影
於暴力與喧囂逞其豪強之處／詩恒常在

這個理論上我是

20060617網摘 – 眉目傳情

JackysBlog | June 16, 2006, 9:39 p.m. | Original

Hawking

何堪冷待不朽的霍金 Quote: 沒法子，政府眼光短淺，不願做「蝕本生意」——霍金身患頑疾，接待他來港成本既高，又沒有帶來金錢經濟效益。反而，四季酒店對這個大人物分毫不收，商家竟然還比政府有情。
霍金版「眉目傳情

奇蹟

silencemo | June 16, 2006, 5:28 a.m. | Original

許多時在工作上都要創造奇蹟
不是什麼偉大的事
也不是什麼了不起的任務
不過在做的過程中
總是要在短到不能再短的時間內完成一些難度極大的事

完成了之後
所有人都覺得是理所當然的
甚至有人會以為這樣的事理應輕鬆完成
可是

立見天國 – 也是血肉之驅

JackysBlog | June 16, 2006, 2:16 a.m. | Original

電影《慕尼黑》中有一幕是主角他們扮作巴勒斯坦人，與另一群巴勒斯坦人對話，用巴人的角度去看以巴的恩恩怨怨，但也只是僅此一幕而已。而電影《立見天國 Paradise Now》通過描寫兩位被指派自殺式炸彈襲擊的青年於行動前的二十

/etc/inittab versus /etc/rc.d

Wandering Thoughts | June 16, 2006, 1:18 a.m. | Original

One aspect of yesterday's problem is a littleordering issue between /etc/inittab and stuff in /etc/rc.d . Namely:

Everything in /etc/rc.d runs before other things in /etc/inittab really takes effect.

(The paths here are for Red Hat; elsewhere, what Red Hat puts in /etc/rc.d is just put straight into /etc , so you have /etc/init.d and /etc/rc3.d and so on