On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Martin Cigorraga <msx@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Ugly hacks are a fact in sysadmins life and it will not prevent me from >> sleep >> like a baby :) > > In fact, at some point you realize that while there are a lot of > beautiful and clean systems, a lot of our entire computing stack is ugly > hacks on top of ugly hacks ;) > And we get used to our particular ugly hack and then complain like hell when someone wants to take that ugly hack away and replace it by an unknown (and possibly/probably ugly as well) hack.