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I heard similar stories from a friend working for a big telco. The other day he was describing a strange bug which was triggering in the field of a large telco
by hrjet 13y ago
I heard similar stories from a friend working for a big telco.
The other day he was describing a strange bug which was triggering in the field of a large telco. It was strange because it used to get triggered after exactly 85 days of deployment.
It turned out to be a debug script that was pinging a development server and timing out (because the development server was not accessible from the field). The series of retrials and timeouts totaled to exactly 85 days, after which the rest of the script would activate and uninstall crucial dependencies!
- mathattack 13y agoLegacy telcos are the epitome of large big institutions where many of the best talents leave. After just a few years of working with them, I couldn't believe they could get a dial tone. How did they produce so much great R&D?
- AsymetricCom 13y agowining and dining college grads and telling them all sorts of great stories then laying the workload on them until they burn out or quit.
- Zigurd 13y ago> How did they produce so much great R&D? By having negotiated profit margins. Bell Labs was meant to soak up excess money. What we are now nostalgic for would never have happened without an interval during which a telco was considered a "natural monopoly."
- mathattack 13y agoBut didn't Bell Labs have the telco mentality? Or how did they protect themselves from it?