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tswtsw | June 17, 2006, 5:05 p.m. | Original

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

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

/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