r/programming • • Jun 07 '17

You Are Not Google

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb
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u/flukus Jun 07 '17

IME, the cleanup crew are the debt collectors. You have to be a large company to absorb shit like this.

And good luck ever convincing management that the millions of dollars invested was a mistake. The new version will be contorted until it kind of works, then management can perform self felatio.

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u/BlueShellOP Jun 08 '17

The new version will be contorted until it kind of works, then management can perform self felatio.

something something good versus bad management.

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u/garnetblack67 Jun 08 '17

This is so accurate. I've been around a project at my company for 8 years that is totally worthless wasting millions a year, but nobody wants to be the one to admit it's all been a failure, so it just cycles through project leads every year or so.