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I'm guessing that disease spreads more quickly in an open office, so sick leave is more necessary.

Bus factor 12 years ago

Hm. I wonder if there's a way to distinguish between "If this particular person gets hit by a bus, we're screwed" versus "If any of these n people get hit by a bus, we're screwed" (which is a lot worse).

Bus factor 12 years ago

If a team has n people, the loss of any of whom would halt the project, does that mean that the bus factor is 1/n?

So, now that the zip file is missing from GitHub, some people are starting to upload it elsewhere. Can the people who got it from GitHub earlier post the result of running

  md5 Atom.zip
? That might help mollify the paranoid conscience.

(EDIT: or any other hash function for that matter.)

This is what I see:

  <html><head><title>MtGox.com loading</title></head><body><p>Please wait...</p><script>function xdec(data){var o="SOME_RANDOM_BASE_64_THAT_KEEPS_CHANGING";var o1,o2,o3,h1,h2,h3,h4,bits,i=0,ac=0,dec="",tmp_arr=[];if(!data){return data}data+='';do{h1=o.indexOf(data.charAt(i++));h2=o.indexOf(data.charAt(i++));h3=o.indexOf(data.charAt(i++));h4=o.indexOf(data.charAt(i++));bits=h1<<18|h2<<12|h3<<6|h4;o1=bits>>16&0xff;o2=bits>>8&0xff;o3=bits&0xff;if(h3==64){tmp_arr[ac++]=String.fromCharCode(o1)}else if(h4==64){tmp_arr[ac++]=String.fromCharCode(o1,o2)}else{tmp_arr[ac++]=String.fromCharCode(o1,o2,o3)}}while(i<data.length);dec=tmp_arr.join('');return dec};document.cookie=xdec('MORE_RANDOM_BASE_64_THAT_KEEPS_CHANGING').replace(String.fromCharCode(0),'').split('').reverse().join(''); location.href='/';</script></body></html>