| ▲ | nickcw 3 days ago | |
I like this one > At scale, even your bugs have users. Something I discovered the hard way over many years of maintaining rclone. Fixing a bug has consequences and there are sometimes users depending on that bug! xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/ | ||
| ▲ | davelee 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
I know this as Hyrum's Law (which also comes from a Googler): "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody." | ||
| ▲ | davidw 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It's a good one: but it's also good to see that most of these are applicable to all kinds of organizations, not just "Google Scale" places. | ||
| ▲ | baal80spam 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Thank you for your work on maintaining rclone! It is a wonderful and very underappreciated piece of software. | ||