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a post that struck home in several ways. "How I Fired myself" (cached half life 2 human error download version) is a short story of a developer who accidentally deleted the
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entire users table in production while working on a new feature. You should read the whole thing, go ahead, I'll wait for you. What struck home was not just that he accidentally deleted data from the production database. I certainly did similar things, accidentally removing data, setting MySQL options at runtime that caused the whole process to crash, amongst other things. The thing that really struck me was the story that unfolded after the incident. I came across the article just when I was reading Sidney Dekker's "The Field Guide to Human Error", a fascinating read, if I may add. If you look at what happened after the incident, it's clear that everyone blames him, as if he had the malicious intent to just delete the whole table and cause unhappiness. His boss accuses him of potentially having lost the company millions, putting aside the possibility that he's helped make these millions too, and that he very likely didn't come in to work that day and lose a few of the company's millions. This kind of reprimanding and the pressure from the team is what eventually caused this poor guy to quit his job. Which is a shame, because there is a lot more to this incident than meets the eye. Nassim Taleb points out in "The Black Swan": "we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation." We're quick to blame the human who seemingly caused accidents or deleted data from the production database. But that misses out on learning a bigger lesson, learning and improving the organization around the human. As Scott Snook put it in "Friendly Fire", "look beyond individual error by framing puzz
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latest upload videos images audio articles reviews headlines blogs post article engines popular latest add engine developers popular latest add dev groups popular latest add group forums jobs post job Human Error Half-Life http://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-2-short-stories 2: Episode Two mod | Released 2010 summary articles reviews files videos images forum jobs Post article RSS Articles What happened to Human Error? Jan 7 2013 News 17 comments With the announcement of From Earth people have been asking where the second episode of Human Error is, or what is even going on with it. Unfortunately, I have to say that another instalment of Human Error is very unlikely to happen at this human error point. It's not that I am not interested in continuing the story, or that I don't care about the characters. I would very much like to hear Phillip sing as Larson again. I'm sure we all would. It's a problem of what I have time for and what I find most interesting. Making gameplay different from Half-Life 2, and setting the story in a world where I have no restrictions is more creative than doing half life 2 a world set in the Half-Life 2 universe, where I always have to think around the Combine technology. From Earth is currently becoming, I think, bigger and better than Human Error. It’s going to be more refined and polished than HE ever was. And even once that’s done -- which could take some time -- there is little chance of me being able to turn my attention back to HE. I have been working on mods a while now and I am starting to seriously consider my entry into the industry itself. After From Earth is done, I hope to be either working at a games company or on a small indie game of my own. I would probably have no time, energy, or permission to work on HE EP2, or any mod for that matter, at the same time. Originally I planned to include a small section here detailing all the different design iterations for the second episode of Human Error, but after talking with other team members, we agreed that it would be better to leave it a mystery as to how the story would continue. We felt we owed the first episode its autonomy. One thing I would like to mention, though, is that even though I still like some of those ideas, most of them were very unfini