On: What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies

[_dp9d]

During University, my professors routinely called this "The bus scenario", are harped it on us every project.

Luckily, nobody got hit by a bus, but we all wound up very diligent at source control.

[Qworg → _dp9d]

I always knew it as your "bus number": how many engineers could get hit by a bus before your project ground to a halt.

[lsh → Qworg]

I call it our bus factor. It's currently one, but we're hiring ;)