On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:40:14AM -0700, Chris wrote:
> I can see from the recent undeadly posts and pictures that most
> developers are using laptops and I know you have to run -current to do
> development work. I was just wondering if these laptops are for
> development use only or development+personal use? I know -current can
> break sometimes and am just curious to know if developers risk putting
> personal stuff on a laptop that is being used for active development.
>
> Thanks.
Ehh, for me personal use very much equals development (plus some mail
and browsing of cousre).
If developers don't run current, bugs will be found too late. If
current isn't good enough, developers will be bitten, and action will
be taken VERY soon.
Data destroying bugs are really rare in any case. Data loss caused by
hardware going broken or personal mistakes is much more likely.
I like what art@ said a long time ago: if your work destroys itself,
it's not good enough.
Kind of genetic programming without all the AI fluff ;-)
-Otto
