From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SDzrK-0007AD-AY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:04:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36077E1116; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:04:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F327E1111 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:03:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so994344wer.40 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:03:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=szQPRK2wPz93m3ECgQlbRzrIT1sxJf0+0iKsFSvQyMM=; b=i1lUO6Tprjxiz75mLJBi6yGZ/MsnATBW0783Tc96/SRe5qXVcLPwBf8R4Bd5Wrstf4 r9R9uMCH71uDCJFY2foLZ5ujo2bchJyLBRBuUHMKvDcjFOXlSrZCq8nGOMaDYTtdh712 NDRHfBCZ0HcKvcL3sqbK4G1QoajDOC2cXr71D8Mmb1COnXcjQNBFKRAbsVyAG1VwKxJ+ ong+bPSu7IxvZMd7MInYDb84c8QMgeCYZXu9HSVcS7HbPj9Qnvyr4ke9YWLaWwuzUtbG xM7VtEWnBzD6jC78UbZRZMqqZO9r+HpNIPGszpe/67pPIjGAc/zqI59iWoztg9hxIA+p ovVg== Received: by 10.180.104.230 with SMTP id gh6mr6983498wib.22.1333206230829; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (host-92-23-144-62.as13285.net. [92.23.144.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm16815233wiz.1.2012.03.31.08.03.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:01:55 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance) Message-ID: <20120331160155.25dda6e0@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F76E3B0.7010800@gentoo.org> References: <20120330150041.c3f7684c.axel@james-b.ch> <4F75B45F.2050108@gentoo.org> <4F76226B.1020507@gentoo.org> <4F762BCF.9010204@cs.stonybrook.edu> <20120331085622.5650ca62@googlemail.com> <20120331105253.4a00ebcc@googlemail.com> <4F76E3B0.7010800@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Lt2wteg6bZhpCaQ90aRnt2y"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 0000202e-a68b-4980-b671-78126adfacc8 X-Archives-Hash: bbf1e4e6043964557e9c0cb0701cf4fc --Sig_/Lt2wteg6bZhpCaQ90aRnt2y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:00:00 +0800 Patrick Lauer wrote: > Good enough is the worst enemy of perfect. >=20 > While we have s 98% solution that doesn't handle all corner cases you > have a theoretical construct in your brain that might in theory cover > 100% of all cases, but it's in your brain where I can't use it, so ... > I'll take the pragmatic approach and use what works. If you have a ten components, each of which 98% work, your overall system is 80% reliable. If you have twenty such components, it's down to 66% reliable. You're rapidly entering "when it breaks, reinstall" territory here. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/Lt2wteg6bZhpCaQ90aRnt2y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk93HHMACgkQ96zL6DUtXhHPeACfU/nJTFLIPCBjvDTKm7pKsL+Y u9AAnA2RfAVd8jRpilsRnXU5KLn8btVG =laOA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Lt2wteg6bZhpCaQ90aRnt2y--