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Beautiful illustration of what keeps bad ideas going, and what it takes to break them. > Our boss, in on the conspiracy with us, had thoughtfully recommended t
by apo 7y ago
Beautiful illustration of what keeps bad ideas going, and what it takes to break them.
> Our boss, in on the conspiracy with us, had thoughtfully recommended that we randomize the order of the browsers listed and then cookie the random seed for each visitor so that the UI would not jump around between pages, which we had done.
It's not exactly clear whether the boss was in on the conspiracy - or whether this was a story told to satisfy the lawyers. If not, this seems a viable strategy for managing the temporary blowback of bending the rules to do the right thing: if you can, make sure your boss ends up looking good.
- jrochkind1 7y agoAlso, do it as right and professionally as you can. I mean, randomizing the order is obviously the right thing to do when you hear it. The reason companies don't want people doing this without going through the proper channels is... what if the boss hadn't happened to think of it, or hadn't been in on it? Of course, in reality in this case, they would have just fixed it when they noticed, it in fact wouldn't have been a legal disaster. But anyway.
- emj 7y agoThe sad truth about proper channels is that they often forget those things as well.