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Come on. We're supposed to doubt the merits of this entire article about Twitter's philosophy and general large-organization engineering practices because someo
by chavesn 13y ago
Come on. We're supposed to doubt the merits of this entire article about Twitter's philosophy and general large-organization engineering practices because someone outside can't imagine how so many people fill their day? Because maybe a thing which we can't hope to gain an accurate perspective of indicates they're doing everything wrong?
This reminds me of the story of a walk from SF to LA illustrating why software estimates are always so wrong:
http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software-development-task-estimations-regularly-off-by-a-factor-of-2-3/answer/Michael-Wolfe http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software...
Instead shouldn't we just evaluate the content on its own merits?
- beagle3 13y agoLook at e.g. Instagram or imgur or reddit or HN for a lean team. It's hard to compare without intimate knowledge of what either team faces, but without considering alternatives, many things that shouldn't look plausible actually do, e.g. The $5,000 hammers the army supposedly bought, the (incorrect, but oft repeated) space pen story, or the clusterfuck that is US healthcare.