John Allspaw
@allspaw or radiation therapy machines, or voting systems, or Teslas, or electronic medical record systems...
We can assume these sort of comments are in the code of self-driving cars, or flight control systems, right?pic.twitter.com/VMXjrKLpKf
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@allspaw if there aren't comments like that, they are lying - Show more
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@allspaw no because those systems are pristine perfect gems. if there are any problems it's the pesky programmer/operator/human's fault -
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@bdha@auxesis@allspaw Turns out that comment isn't from illumos, but sendmail (I had to check, I'm a NERD).pic.twitter.com/Tulo3I7b7n
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@allspaw So your#illumos example is actually sendmail: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/09f79f7c66b85f056db11f58210dc6182c9b1aef/usr/src/cmd/sendmail/src/usersmtp.c#L297-L303 … Not that we don't have plenty of dirty hacks, of course... -
@allspaw // Not sure how this ever worked -
@allspaw "Ugly hack" is in the eye of the beholder. -
@allspaw ## hack to make car steering work -
@allspaw It's interesting that the Go one is basically about the compiler being too clever with an optimization (escape analysis here). -
@allspaw probably worse in control systems as failure is less accepted, hacks are probaby hidden
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@allspaw // this can never happen -
@allspaw@old_sound yes, but there probably are worst in the human mind? -
@allspaw // it'll be fine
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