Paul Cantrell on Nostr: Those who’ve worked in software will immediate recognize the phenomenon of ...
Those who’ve worked in software will immediate recognize the phenomenon of “messes that look like successes.”
One of my old Paulisms is that the real purpose of a whole lot of software processes is to make large-scale failure look like a string of small successes.
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