"let it crash". The core idea behind it has to do with the fact that modern applications have a huge number of states that they can find themselves in. The more complex your application is, the more variables you need to keep track of everything. Eventually it becomes impossible for developers to predict all combinations of state that these variables will form. Once your app gets into an undesirable state, the best thing you can do is to reset it and start from a fresh, well known and correct state

The authors explored two mindsets that employees are likely to adopt when faced with challenges at work:

Humanistic mindset: an empathetic, person-centric approach that focuses on each coworker’s self-worth and dignity.

Mechanistic mindset: an efficient, task-focused approach that focuses on utilitarian cost-benefit comparisons.

“The mindset adopted by employees has implications on whether they interact with others in a civil or uncivil manner,”

interesting open source software forks and why they happened

Die Krankenschwester des Horrors!

they call it "Vorhersagen"

wollte ich schon immer wissen

AOL 2014: wenn gar nichts geht, Scheißdreck labern geht immer11 Hey, good news, idiots!11

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