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MarkL

[...] Here is the right way to address this bug:

Learn more about manifests, so I know what a good one looks like.

Take a look at the one we’re generating for Kiln; see if anything obvious screams out.

If so, dive into the build system [blech] and have it fix up the manifest, or generate a better one, or whatever’s involved here. This part’s a second black box to me, since the Kiln Storage Service is just a py2exe executable, meaning that we might be hitting a bug in py2exe, not our build system.

If not, burn a Microsoft support ticket so I can learn how to get some more debugging info out of the error message.

Here’s the first thing I actually did:

Look at the executable using a dependency checker to see what DLLs it was using, then make sure they were present on Windows 2003.

This is not the behavior of a rational man. [...]

http://bitquabit.com/post/cargo-cult-debugging/

[...] Here is the right way to address this bug:

Learn more about manifests, so I know what a good one looks like.

Take a look at the one we’re generating for Kiln; see if anything obvious screams out.

If so, dive into the build system [blech] and have it fix up the manifest, or generate a better one, or whatever’s involved here. This part’s a second black box to me, since the Kiln Storage Service is just a py2exe executable, meaning that we might be hitting a bug in py2exe, not our build system.

If not, burn a Microsoft support ticket so I can learn how to get some more debugging info out of the error message.

Here’s the first thing I actually did:

Look at the executable using a dependency checker to see what DLLs it was using, then make sure they were present on Windows 2003.

This is not the behavior of a rational man. [...]

http://bitquabit.com/post/cargo-cult-debugging/

If I understand the later research, the criticism is that Skinner projected rather than observed repeating behaviors in the pigeons. Skinner was associating the corner-touching with the pigeons more than the pigeons were associating the corner-touching with the food.

Scientific problem solving includes falsification, and that's what'd I'd offer as a right interpretation / good way to minimize cargo-cult solutions. Non-scientific problem solving includes anything you like and the provisional proof is found only in the proverbial pudding.

Cite please.

Skinner avoided appeals to internal states and demonstrated how schedules of reinforcement affected behaviour.

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