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smitty1e
on June 21, 2022
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Ask HN: How does HN manage to be always online?
Compulsive over-engineering is by no means an IT-centric problem.
It takes substantial wisdom to arrive at an 80% solution and cease fannying about.
xyproto
on June 21, 2022
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And the people that brings this wisdom also brings few or no metrics that are appreciated by management.
fisf
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The people who push the other direction also bring few or no metrics. I.e. there is often no reason to add <bag of features>, except a customer (who didn't buy the product yet) mentioned them as nice to have during initial sales talks.
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It takes substantial wisdom to arrive at an 80% solution and cease fannying about.