Very true [LWN.net]

Very true

Posted Sep 17, 2009 5:25 UTC (Thu) by proski (guest, #104)
Parent article: Re: [PATCH 06/20] mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array

It's an important quality of a kernel programmer to be able to through away own changes if they turn out to be less important than they seemed to be originally.

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Very true

Posted Sep 17, 2009 14:34 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (guest, #15022) [Link]

This sounds so wasteful from the perspective of a capital-based system where work equals money, but there is something fundamentally satisfying about being able to say that work equals experience, and to look for quality, and admit to ourselves that most of the time we go for days in the wrong direction before we hit on something closer to right.

So ironic that reconnecting the worker to the quality of their work should feel like alienating them from the value of their labor.