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Building High-Quality Software(medium.com)
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by victorronin 6y ago
It's super simple and it works for you - yeay! great! If it will continue to work for you - double yeay! However, as soon as I read, I saw a lot of red flags: - Do you really want to copy from a development computer to your production?
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by victorronin 6y ago
I heard this narrative before. Three thoughts: - People concentrate on the tool (technology) vs. goal (value) Let say you need to handle a million users in the past (read: "provide value to million users"). It would be an unbeliev
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by victorronin 6y ago
>If everything is a priority, nothing is. Other things could be a _higher_ priority than a new thing. Just to give you an example (for huge amount of people priority to earn money to be able to have food on the table trumps almost everyt
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by victorronin 6y ago
Well.. I chose the simplest possible example. It has obvious benefits, and the only thing you have to figure out is to sacrifice some unknown other activity. I wonder why "Less than 5% of adults participate in 30 minutes of physical ac
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by victorronin 6y ago
This is a fascinating subject. It looks like many people are commenting about alternative realities and that exploring them is a fool's game (BTW. I concur with that). The thing which bothers me is upbeat comments about living here and
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by victorronin 6y ago
"There is nothing special about managers." Managers are very often (especially in a bigger organization) is the only channel how information flows to owners. As a result, managers can paint very different picture of the same situ
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by victorronin 6y ago
What would happen if you replace "performance" in this article with "not contrast enough UI" or "bad autocorrect" or "annoying background music"? Should this article have been "Good autocorrect m
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by victorronin 6y ago
For some reason, I thought about survivor bias. You are right that not all successful business started with an original idea. You are right that not all of them required significant upfront investment, and you are right that there are great
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by victorronin 6y ago
Let me start from another end. Owning a car (a couple of year old, not luxury) could be $400 month (deprecation, parking, insurance, gas, fixes, etc). Taking Uber to drive the same trips will cost you let say $300/month. Please don&#x2
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by victorronin 6y ago
+1 I see a lot of merit to what the author is saying. However, he completely ignores externalities. Yes, car is not used 95% of time. And he is saying, let's target the 5%. The problem is that it's not 5%, it's rather 3% of p
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by victorronin 6y ago
Long-long time ago I was posting about this on Meta: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/166952/old-timers-l...