The Dark Cockpit Theory
A co-worker who is annoyed with the verbosity of our verilog simulations just asked me if I subscribed to the Dark Cockpit Theory. I immediately replied, "no." I've had this argument a number of times with other engineers and I have already decided that more information is better than less. I had to google "dark cockpit theory" later because I'd never heard of it referred to that. For me it has always been the UNIX "Rule of Silence" . Same idea, I think.
Just to be clear, I do like the Rule of Silence when it's software that I trust isn't going to do weird things or silently hang. There isn't a lot of code that I trust that much, though, and if it's software I don't trust, I want to know what it's doing, or at least that it's doing something .
As I thought about this more, it's the same with people. When a person you trust is doing something for you, they can go do it without giving you any intermediat...