Gordon Weakliem

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Software and other stuff "There are two hard problems in CS: naming things, cache expiration, and off by one errors" http://eighty-twenty.net

It is tempting to label such problems as "human error" and to wish that they could be solved by better controlling human behavior through tighter procedures and compliance with rules. However, blaming people for mistakes is counterproductive. What we call "human error" is not really the cause of an incident, but rather a symptom of a problem with the sociotechnical system in which people are trying their best to do their jobs. Often complex systems have emergent behavior, in which unexpected interactions between components may also lead to failures

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