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It's a rewording of a passage from, I believe, Ender's Game (maybe Speaker for the Dead) with software instead of Players of the Game. It works surprisingly wel
by wcunning 4y ago
It's a rewording of a passage from, I believe, Ender's Game (maybe Speaker for the Dead) with software instead of Players of the Game. It works surprisingly well, though I think I may not be the target audience, having never worked at a startup.
- vlunkr 4y agoAh. That makes sense
- majormajor 4y agoIs it? It doesn't ring a bell at all (or really fit with the topic of either one of those books) and I don't see that mentioned in the previous discussion links posted above on a quick search; everything there was about society/politics/military more than business. Those discussions include this comment which says he worked on video games in the 80s (dialogue, AFAICT, and story; not code), which is probably close enough experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818816
- kjfarm 4y agoSome of his later work may sound similar, but the original cited source is "Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995" as evidenced by https://homepages.uc.edu/~thomam/Articles/HowSoftwareCompaniesDie.pdf https://homepages.uc.edu/~thomam/Articles/HowSoftwareCompani...