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Avoiding Mistakes Can Be a Huge Mistake
theodp writes "No doubt many will nod knowingly as they read Paul Graham's The Other Half of 'Artists Ship', which delves into the downside of procedures developed by Big Companies to protect themselves against mistakes. Because every check you put on your programmers has a cost, Graham warns: 'And just as the greatest danger of being hard to sell to is not that you overpay but that the best suppliers won't even sell to you, the greatest danger of applying too many checks to your programmers is not that you'll make them unproductive, but that good programmers won't even want to work for you.' Sound familiar, anyone?"
Do programmers also loose karma for being fast and lose with their spelling?
Do programmers also loose karma for being fast and lose with their spelling?
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They can be docked karma that way, but when they're not sure about something, they can cover their asses and submit anonymously. That way, if something totally whooshes over their heads, they're in the clear. They can later correct their own dumbass mistakes unanonymously and whore karma instead of losing it. What a perfect system!
Google is evil incarnated, Apple is style-over-function overpriced junk, and "The Year of The Linux Desktop" ain't coming soon.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has some really funny employees (and Reversi).
/em ducks
"DRM is like the Ford Pinto: it's a smooth ride, right up the point at which it explodes and ruins your day."-C.Doctorow
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/woosh
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Error: Cyclic Dependency