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There are markets where being seen as old-fashioned is fatal, so this might not be irrational. Just because it's internal doesn't mean they're not worried about
by mkr-hn 5y ago
There are markets where being seen as old-fashioned is fatal, so this might not be irrational. Just because it's internal doesn't mean they're not worried about the wrong people seeing it in an old-fashioned state. People who worry about that (for good reason or not) don't always have a boundary on that concern, and sometimes internals leak.
- anyonecancode 5y agoIn fairness, his audience was his manager, not the app's users. So it was perfectly rationale for him to push for the relatively easy re-write instead of worrying about the app's users, given that his manager was not a user of the app. As an engineer who finds value in making things people actually find useful, though, it was a pretty dispiriting experience.