Very much appalled at the poor attention to detail taken in the documentation of this experiment.
How will I ever know by which type of muffin Linus' life was threatened?
What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
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Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#72"What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus?” is now permanently archived on: https://setinblock.com/0x8006d703a45663cab96a85a4ef3e6ab94a1...
Haha thats great!
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm very sorry for your loss. I've heard "wins the lottery" as a less morbid metaphor for the same concept: one of your employees stops working in a low-probability event. Of course the higher-probability event is leaving their job (but somehow it's less polite to just say that); you usually get two weeks to hurriedly start documenting things, and with the current state of employee/employer relations you might easily…
As far as I can tell, "hits by a bus" is actually the euphemism. The highest probability way to lose an employee is just the employee quitting to work somewhere else. But you can't say that because it implies that your current workplace is suboptimal. Whereas "hits by a bus" is out of the control of your employer, so safe to say...
Flight risk is another term one could use.
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a license to permanently redistribute it?
That's not a traditional form of re-distribution. In legal terms, I guess it's a gray area. The article is now on the blockchain. It is not published (re-distributed) anywhere in particular. It's also encoded and not in the actual form of an article.
Involving a technically convoluted mechanism doesn't change the fundamental legal question here. It's just made it harder for you to undo your potential violation.
A temporary web mirror has at least a narrow time scope and a justification. Choosing to embed a copy of content you don't own into a permanently-public record is a greater offense.
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mind providing a source for this? I read this all the time but it doesn't match my experience here in Germany.
1.5 to 3 years doesn’t seem to be too far off the mark. https://insights.dice.com/2016/07/08/how-long-do-tech-pros-s...
Thanks for the backup
Maybe some people stop wasting their lives tallying the years instead of tallying those 000s
In b4 “but I like my manager and team”
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not a traditional form of re-distribution. In legal terms, I guess it's a gray area. The article is now on the blockchain. It is not published (re-distributed) anywhere in particular. It's also encoded and not in the actual form of an article.
Involving a technically convoluted mechanism doesn't change the fundamental legal question here. It's just made it harder for you to undo your potential violation. A temporary web mirror has at least a narrow time scope and a justification. Choosing to embed a copy of content you don't own into a permanently-public record is a greater offense.
I wonder where exactly do you see the violation?
Is it that I archived it on the blockchain, or that I shared a reader link to that transaction where the article is archived?
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#77Real Story Here. A colleague and I developed a training course on the Foundations of DevOps. We started the course off with a discussion about risk in Software Delivery and IT in general. Attendees would often surface the "Key-Person Risk" or the "Hit by a Bus Risk" to which we would use as a teachable moment for pair programming, cross pollination, and measuring and improving the time it takes for new joins to becom…
That's really tough. Sorry to hear about that. It's all abstract until it actually happens and then suddenly all those lessons bear fruit. You of course hope you'll never need them, but just in case you (or those that take over from you) do you will be very happy (insofar as the situation allows) that you were prepared. It is an interesting phenomenon that I hear several times per year 'but what are the chances of th…
Actuarially, just go with 1 per 1000 employees for bigger companies. Go 1 in 3000 as a lower boundary, but as high as 1/500 or less for companies with older or lower skilled employees.
I do agree with other commenters that your procedures should keep you safe in case of regular churn (say 1 in 3 to 1 in 10) or even non-regular churn (say due to a toxic team-lead and a whole team quitting).
Ideally procedures should be in place that treats all these events quite equally and favor robust practices.
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#78What’s crazy is that I voluntarily try to set aside time to document and cross train but I get push back. I don’t think anyone has ever voluntarily left the small company I work for and they don’t think about what would happen if I leave.
I try to cross train for a few reasons - I would never want to leave the company in a lurch if I find a better opportunity, I don’t want to be stuck on an implementation forever because I’m the only one that knows how to do it, and after awhile, I forget how the systems I designed works together.
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#79Might want to add '(2000)' to the title. I feel like Torvalds himself have been addressing aspects of this issue this year.
It also names Miguel de Icaza as a similarly important character, it was in 2000 because gnome, event considering Mono as an important technology nowadays, it's not as significative or critical as Gnome was back then.
Edit: wording.
Re: What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000)
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure he's not a Roman but a Finn. (I'm also quite sure most languages today aren't Latin, namely English isn't. But what do I know, English speakers seem to have a different opinion.)
English is pretty casual about borrowing other languages' plural forms, and Latin second declension nominatives -- alumnus/alumni, millenium/millenia -- are probably the most familiar non-English singular/plural pairs to English speakers. To an English speaker, Prii seems like a reasonable plural for Prius (though if it's a Latin word, it looks like a neuter comparative, in which case the plural is "priora"). Similar…
Afaik it's only with Latin that English-speakers insist on universal adoption of the foreign plural. For other words the irregularity is a rare exception―while for Latin it's pretty much regularity instead.
For some reason, people don't seem so keen on using French plural forms for French words: e.g. "animaux" and "journaux." Same with German ones, Italian, Yiddish or Arabic. Probably because borrowed words are mangled to the rules of the adopting language, like it's done everywhere.
IMO not only using Latin plurals in English doesn't make sense and is rather arbitrary, but it's kept around by people insisting on correcting others contrary to those others' intuition. It's time to stop.