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As someone who spent the first ten years of their career desperately trying to salvage one steaming heap of technical debt and security disasters after another,
by stouset 9y ago
As someone who spent the first ten years of their career desperately trying to salvage one steaming heap of technical debt and security disasters after another, I think we have wildly diverging opinions of the consequences of software development driven primarily by just trying to get something committed and out there.
In my opinion, every single one of these companies was effectively a zombie: dead, but unaware of it.
- frading 9y agoDo I understand you right that Github, Basecamp, Twitter are or were zombies? If that's what you are saying, I'd love you to elaborate, because I can't see how one could see this.
- stouset 9y agoThe companies I was referring to are the companies I had worked for in the past, that were saddled with irrecoverable technical debt as a result of “just ship it” with no regard to craftsmanship.