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jspaw

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    Comment #48024577

    It’d be amazing if it could calculate the cost of the consequences of not having a meeting which, in hindsight, would have been less costly. Not saying it’s common, but those situa…

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    Comment #46548914

    It seems the results (knowledge silos, review cliques, and rubber stamping) would be inaccurate often since the heuristics can’t actually capture what they say they do? I would be …

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    Comment #42703966

    “Again, these are just assertions. I’m less invested in some of these than I’m presenting. The talk isn’t about any one of them. I’m not here to convince you that my reflections ar…

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    Comment #41282620

    Thanks for the feedback!

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    Comment #37169719

    The hindsight bias is a helluva drug. Hoping the author of that page sees: https://youtu.be/TqaFT-0cY7U

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    Comment #34754112

    It’s news article titles like “Reckless American 777 Pilots Refuse Recorded NTSB Interviews” that fuel this sort of pushback that the pilots are giving about interviews. NTSB inves…

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    Comment #31246595

    Hindsight is a helluva drug. The SEC report cannot be viewed as a “postmortem.” https://www.kitchensoap.com/2013/10/29/counterfactuals-knigh...

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    Comment #30113064

    The SRE book authors cited the post specifically ( https://sre.google/sre-book/bibliography/#All12 ), and Googlers I’ve spoken to mentioned its influence there.

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    Comment #30109922

    I coined this term ( https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/ ) and believe (productive and earnest) critique can be valuable when it comes to terms like this one.…

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    Comment #16787082

    A level floor doesn’t have influence on the table being flat? Does the observer’s perspective being parallel with the table’s surface have anything to do with it? When viewed throu…

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    Comment #16787065

    No, they can’t. Both approaches are linear and sequential chains of cause/effect, which do not work with complex adaptive systems. Five whys give a cherry-picked paucity of data in…

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    Comment #1137276

    (see my post above) :)

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    Comment #1137275

    It's multithreaded, so can take advantage of more CPU mores, unlike squid. It has total disk cache persistence, so it won't lose any cache if the server crashes, traffic server cra…