Why Patching Globals Is Harmful
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Why Patching Globals Is Harmful
As I noted in my post on metrics, “Building systems using bad metrics doesn’t stop their self-optimization, they just optimize towards something you didn’t want.” Underspecified goals interact with this process in an interesting way.
David Manheim • Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
GitHub - andrew-hu368/build-your-own-x-in-js: Understand your tools by creating them from scratch
CodeCrafters, Inc.github.com
Fixing a defect has a substantial (20 to 50 percent) chance of introducing another.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
