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This explanation made me giggle and cry a little. It also made me think of the quote from Scott Hanselman, "We're not nearly as organized as we'd need to be to
by bargl 11y ago
This explanation made me giggle and cry a little. It also made me think of the quote from Scott Hanselman, "We're not nearly as organized as we'd need to be to be as evil as you might think we are."
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
Microsoft is thought of as this hugely evil company, but I don't know, maybe they are just as disorganized as every other company I've worked with and the product owner doesn't understand their customers all the time. The key is some comapanies I've worked for pivot fast and fix things they see as a mistake. Others try to bury and hide it.
Are they going to kill my pappy this time? I don't think so, but we'll see.
- xenophon 11y agoThis heuristic, generalized, is sometimes called Hanlon's Razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
- jobu 11y agoThe razor also has a corollary in Clark's law, which states that "any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".
- kibwen 11y agoI actually think that Hanlon's Razor goes too far. Allow me to present Kibwen's Corollary to Hanlon's Razor: "never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by apathy".
- harryjo 11y agoMicrosoft's evil was on display in open court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents Hanselman's point was that they weren't as evil as you might think