[Themaintainers] XKCD comic on maintenance

[Andrew Russell]

Thank you Kara & James for sharing!  It’s always educational to see what the folks on hacker news think about things :)

I’ve been mulling how the cartoon would look if we took out the word “digital” so that it’s captioned “All Modern Infrastructure.”  The dependency nicely depicted by XKCD might be apt for the unregulated, unlicensed world of software. 

But for electricians or construction workers, who have to comply with all kinds of industry codes and state/federal regulations, this approach to dependencies might be… [trying to think of the right word]… criminal?

Andy

> On Aug 18, 2020, at 11:13 AM, James Howison <jhowison at ischool.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 
> Love it!  I always learn something from people discussing these online, like on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24193278 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24193278>  (long discussion of ImageMagick in there)
> 
> And the explainxkcd wiki): https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency <https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency>
> 
> James Howison
> 
> Associate Professor
> School of Information
> University of Texas at Austin
> http://james.howison.name <http://james.howison.name/>
> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 9:13 AM Kara Andersen <karalynn.andersen at gmail.com <mailto:karalynn.andersen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hello Maintainers -
> 
> In case you haven’t seen it already, I thought I’d share this XKCD comic about maintenance.
> 
> Kara
> 
> <dependency_2x.png>
> 
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