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         <div class="comment-date">2024-07-29 14:29 UTC</div>
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+        <div class="comment-author"><a href="/">Mark Seemann</a> <a href="#4655bc2aa6664d5ca10dfb069102bbfd">#</a></div>
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+                Jiehong, thank you for writing. Indeed, in <a href="/code-that-fits-in-your-head">Code That Fits in Your Head</a> I discuss how shared code ownership reduces the bus factor.
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+                From this article and previous discussions I've had, I can see that the term <em>trust</em> is highly charged. People really don't like the notion that trust may be misplaced, or that mistrust, even, might be appropriate. I can't tell if it's a cultural bias of which I'm not aware. While English isn't my native language, I believe that I'm sufficiently acquainted with anglo-saxon culture to know of its most obvious quirks. Still, I'm sometimes surprised.
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+                I admit that I, too, <em>first</em> consider whether I'm dealing with a deliberate adversary if I'm asked whether I trust someone, but soon after, there's a secondary interpretation that originates from normal human fallibility. I've <a href="/2023/03/20/on-trust-in-software-development">already written about that</a>: No, I don't trust my colleagues to be infallible, as I don't trust myself to be so.
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+                Fortunately, it seems to me that the remedies that may address such concerns are the same, regardless of the underlying reasons.
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+        <div class="comment-date">2024-08-06 05:57 UTC</div>
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