alt Hacker NewsI 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/
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davidw • last Sunday at 4:50 PM
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 • last Sunday at 4:47 PM
Thank you for your work on maintaining rclone! It is a wonderful and very underappreciated piece of software.
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."
https://www.hyrumslaw.com/