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Your software just isn’t mission critical
- akamaka 10y agoWho is this rant directed at? I don't know the context, but I presume he's responding to some specifc group of programmers who he hasn't named.
- orbz 10y agoSeems to be classic DHH. Reminds me of Rails is Omakase: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.html http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.htm...
- skj 10y agoThe fact that some missions are more consequential than others doesn't dilute the meaning of "mission critical" for whatever you're talking about. It's critical to that mission, not the forward progress of humanity.
- zeroxfe 10y agoMission critical can mean critical to one's mission. And if that's your photo sharing startup, then so be it. Use whatever language you need to get you through the day.
- kapauldo 10y agoHe is following zuckerbergs messiah complex. He should stick to rails. Yelling at develpers is obnoxious.
- DougN7 10y agoAbsolutely. This guy has some sort of superiority complex.
- barnabee 10y agoMission critical does not mean what he thinks it means. Mission critical refers to any component that's vital to operation of a system, business, or project and exists at any software driven organisation. Safety critical is the one where your astronauts are left stranded on the moon with no oxygen if it goes wrong.
- n00b101 10y agoI prefer the terms "life critical" (people could die if there's a bug) and "business critical" (business could die if there's a bug). I think "mission critical" is a military term (mission could fail if there's a bug).