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A: "Your restaurant's food tastes terrible." B: "Nutritious, healthy food will ensure the longevity of my customers, thereby maximizing lifetime customer reven
by _jal 6y ago
A: "Your restaurant's food tastes terrible."
B: "Nutritious, healthy food will ensure the longevity of my customers, thereby maximizing lifetime customer revenue."
- d3nj4l 6y agoThat's an awful analogy
- bb88 6y agoI just logged into nest for the first time on a new laptop. It took 15 seconds to load and get to the screen to change the temperature on the thermostat. Then I refreshed the page and it still took 10 seconds to reload. I'm sure their code is also relatively bug free.
- pc86 6y agoIt's actually pretty good analogy, when you're searching for an analogy of something being technically accurate while missing literally the entire point. Making your code "more intuitive" does not result in a better product. Making a better product does. The argument is that software development is one of the few jobs where the employees' experience seems to be equal or more important than the client experience. Sacrificing a restaurant goer's experience (taste) because it makes the restauranteur's experience (customer LTV) better is a decent analogy.
- lyjackal 6y agoI think a better analogy might be telling a restaurant to cut down their oversized menu so that they can actually make at least one good meal
- newsbinator 6y agoA: "I enjoy your restaurant's food but my chef friend said your kitchen is inefficient". B: "As long as you enjoy it, and we can keep making it for you at the same quality you enjoy, we don't care how inefficient our kitchen is".
- nybble41 6y agoA: "Okay, but the new place next door serves identical food with a more efficient kitchen, at lower prices you can't match without making significant changes. If you don't improve efficiency somehow you'll start to lose customers."